Dialoge der Sprachlosigkeit

In the organizer's words:

from xarpêt to hannover to dêrsim and kucax through the euphrates and tigris through the leine and ihme through the spree the isar and themse through all the spots of this earth where i stayed where i stayed silence draws its paths the search for language draws its routes on the paths lie either stones and asphalt from word-inadequacies to describe anything or gaps flow in them in all directions until the gaps becomeholesuntil the empty spaces fill all the sentences and no more letters can be found along the roadside on the bank.

We all encounter the search for the right words. And it challenges us - whether in personal conversations, in public or when talking about political issues. The author and director Dîlan Z. Çapan has a special connection to the Kammerspiele. She has already worked at our theater as artistic director of the Habibi Kiosk. She is currently presenting the Literatur*Raum series. In this work, which was developed at the UNIVERSEN of Schauspiel Hannover and can now be seen as a guest performance at the Kammerspiele, she poses both universal and particular questions about the limits of what can be said: How does one describe catastrophes whose effects cannot actually be grasped with language? What does it mean to miss a language that you were born with?

The evening will be accompanied by the musician Dîlan Top. The themes and feelings that Dîlan Z. Çapan deals with in her text resonate in Kurdish music. Many of the questions concern Kurds in particular due to global oppression and the partial denial of their identity. Kurdish culture, especially its music and dances as its most important forms of expression, are therefore not only music and dance for Kurds, but also always an expression of resistance. So this evening is not least about the transformative power of expression and about resilience and joy - no matter how sobering the circumstances.