ON AIR ON FIRE

In the organizer's words:

Summer 1989 in East Berlin. A country is coming apart at the seams: more and more people are fleeing to the West, protests are getting louder, some are afraid, others are fighting for change. Meanwhile, the young radio producers Mina, Leo, Toni and Johannes make programs on the GDR youth radio station. They are expected to act as if everything is as it always was. But how is that supposed to work? The atmosphere is tense to breaking point. Mina clashes with everyone, Leo is arrested, Toni supports a resolution, only Johannes keeps quiet - and then the unthinkable happens: the Wall falls and new spaces open up. Finally making radio as they always wanted to: Talk openly about topics that were previously taboo, play the music they wanted to, and design the station themselves.

Author Marion Brasch, herself a presenter at the only East German youth radio station DT64 at the time, uses fictional characters to tell the story of real events. About a unique moment of freedom and how a radio station became a way of life for young people.

Director Alexander Riemenschneider and his ensemble bring the radio studio to life and use the stage - and other spaces in the theater - to do so. With documentary video material and lots of music, they take you back to this time of upheaval, when the daily question was: adapt or leave?

Supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion