GLITSH: Reihe für Performative Texte | #4 mit Raphaela Bardutzky: Altbau in zentraler Lage.

In the organizer's words:

GLITSH: Series for performative texts

#4 with Raphaela Bardutzky: Old building in a central location. A show opera

in German spoken language and German sign language

When a group of music-making ghosts haunt an apartment, it is actually the property management's job to take care of the infestation. In reality, however, many rental sharks take advantage of the ghosts' preference for old, almost empty houses to chase away the last of the remaining living residents. Young Zoey, however, cannot afford another apartment and so she finds her own remedy against the ghosts: techno, turned up as loud as possible. However, the booming sound not only scares away the ghosts, it also wakes up Zoey's neighbor Trisha. Although she can't hear the techno or the ghostly music, she can feel the vibrations and so the two find companionship in the haunted house.

Altbau in zentraler Lage is a horror opera for hearing and deaf audiences, as well as for a hearing and deaf ensemble. The scenes in which Trisha and Zoey find a common language were written by Raphaela Bardutzky in close collaboration with Athena Lange, who also plays Trisha in the Leipzig premiere.

Text and reading Raphaela Bardutzky | Reading Athena Lange | Moderation Jan Geiger and Theresa Seraphin | DJ Tobias Felice

Raphaela Bardutzky is a freelance dramaturge and author from Munich. Her plays have been performed at the Burgtheater Vienna, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Schauspiel Graz, Theater Heidelberg, Landestheater Linz and Schauspiel Leipzig, among others. Bardutzky's texts often deal with social inequality, precarious working conditions and classism; the climate catastrophe also repeatedly plays a role. At the same time, the plays are humorous, rhythmic and formal, and have "a strong biographical-political mission, which is then transformed into history" (David Bösch). Her drama Fischer Fritz was awarded the Audience Prize for New Drama at the Münchner Kammerspiele and was the winning play at the Autor:innentheatertage at the Deutsches Theater Berlin in 2022. In 2023, she received the Bavarian Art Prize in the literature category for her play "Das Licht der Welt".

Athena Lange, born in Plauen in 1991, studied acting at the Leipzig Drama School. She was a permanent member of the Leipzig ensemble until 2016 and performed for the Deutsches Gehörlosentheater and Possible World Berlin. At the Staatstheater Hannover, she took on the leading role in the play "Die Wut, die uns vereint" in 2019. Since 2021, she has played Isa from Wolfgang Herrndorf's novel "Pictures of Your Great Love" at the Societaetstheater in Dresden. In 2022, her first own production "whatremainsofme" premiered at the Sophiensaele Berlin. She acted as author and performer for this. She can currently be seen as Barbara in the Austrian satire series "Dave". She is also the German dubbing voice of the character Aisha in the fourth season of "Sex Education". At Schauspiel Leipzig, she plays the character Trisha in the play "Altbau in zentraler Lage", which she created together with the author Raphaela Bardutzky. The two developed the dialog for this character in a multilingual collaboration. Athena went deaf at the age of 20. She is fluent in German sign language and identifies as a bilingual artist. She lives in Berlin.

Tobias Felice studied Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Practice in Hildesheim, lives in Leipzig and has made a name for himself as a theater maker in various contexts, as well as with his trance alias "Feta Felice". His music productions and DJ sets attract worldwide attention and generate hundreds of thousands of clicks on popular streaming platforms.