Poetica 10 - »Welcome to the Bounce House« Poetry meets Scenery

In the organizer's words:

In her Guessays - derived from the English "to guess" - Uljana Wolf compares the activity of translating with jumping on a bouncy castle: "With each jump, the space changed, with each new bounce, the jumper's sense of space changed. The landscape bounced back unpredictably. The bounce house was basically a poem." With the ability to perceive the world differently through its ephemeral architectures, to have different experiences, the theater also shares some of the qualities of the bounce house in its best moments. On the last evening of the Poetica week, the international poets will therefore take another run-up and, together with members of the Schauspiel Köln ensemble, allow their texts to change the landscapes in which we live; they will try out letting go as well as new movements and explore the free spaces of poetry together.

With the authors Lina Atfah (Syria/Germany), Radna Fabias (Curaçao/Netherlands), Hiromi Itō (Japan), Lebogang Mashile (South Africa), Fiston Mwanza Mujila (Congo/Austria), Sergio Raimondi (Argentina), Claudia Rankine (USA), Sasha Marianna Salzmann (Germany), Sjón (Iceland), Jan Wagner (Germany) and Uljana Wolf (Germany) as well as the actors:Inside Lou Friedmann, Benjamin Höppner, Yvon Jansen and Fabi Ten Thije
Director: Antonia Ortmanns; Stage: Lilli Riesenbeck; Costumes: Melina Jusczyk; Music: Pablo Giw; Dramaturgy: Johanna Rummeny
In cooperation with Schauspiel Köln.