IMAGINE! 2025 | Hakaya 2.0: Feuer, Wasser, Sturm النار العاصفة الماء

In the organizer's words:

As part of IMAGINE! 2nd International Festival for Narrative Art in Chemnitz, Dresden & Leipzig

Jiyan finds a magic fish and can suddenly wish for anything. But what do you really need to be happy? Jiyan's family has very clear ideas, but with each wish they grow further apart.

Together with the two narrators Mohammed and Annika, they embark on a journey through the four elements, but be careful: fire gives light, but can also burn. We need water to live, but you can also drown in it. And what can the wind make disappear?

For all ages 6 and up | Duration: approx. 60 min

Storytelling: Hakaya 2.0 - Mohammed Kello (DE/SY) & Annika Füser (DE)

Notes:

• The event will be held in German, Arabic and Kurdish spoken language.
• Additional fees apply for advance sales via TixforGigs.
• The box office opens one hour before the start of the event (no ticket payment possible).
• The venue is the rehearsal stage on floor 1. Information on accessibility can be found at www.theaterderjungenweltleipzig.de/teilhabe/spielstaetten-anreise

Mohammed Kello (Afrin - Syria, 1993) inherited storytelling and many stories from his grandmother. He was an actor at Club Al-Hakawati at Theater X in Berlin from 2015 to 2020 and has repeatedly been part of various theater and performance projects. He has told stories at many storytelling festivals in Germany. Since 2023 he has been telling stories regularly in Berlin elementary school. He has worked as a translator and social care worker, he completed the Artistic Storytelling certificate course at the UDK Berlin in 2021. He is currently studying social work at Alice Salomon University and works at Moabiter Ratschlag.

Annika Füser (Cologne - Germany, 1988) has been telling stories to her little brother since she was 7. She is now a freelance storyteller, theater educator and director in Berlin. She studied Liberal Arts
in Maastricht and Rio de Janeiro and later studied theater pedagogy in the Master's program and artistic storytelling with Ragnhild Mørch at the UDK Berlin. Since 2011, Theater X in Moabit has been the main anchor for her artistic research. She has now staged more than 15 productions there with various youth ensembles.

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The festival is supported by: Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen | Landeshauptstadt Dresden - Amt für Kultur und Denkmalschutz | Kulturamt Stadt Leipzig | Märchenstiftung Walter-Kahn | Deutsch-Tschechischer Zukunftsfonds |GLS Bank |Chemnitz Kulturhauptstadt Europas 2025 |

In cooperation with: A project by ERZÄHLRAUM e.V. in cooperation with Taupunkt e.V. Chemnitz, Societaetstheater Dresden, GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, Theater der Jungen Welt Leipzig, Budde-Haus Leipzig, Café Terra Leipzig, Kültür Kollektiv Leipzig e.V.

Price information:

Cost: €12 / €8 / €5 (solidarity pricing system: pay what you can!) | School & daycare groups: €4 (accompanying person free) by prior arrangement at festival@erzaehlraum.de