DRAMA!

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DRAMA! enters its sixth round. Launched as an experiment in 2020, the format has proven to be very enduring. Constantly evolving, it has established itself as a central project in the education of three universities.

What makes it so special? For the first time, young authors work TOGETHER with directors, dramaturges and actors on a project. Each discipline is taught individually and brought together under the guidance of the teachers. Collective work is tried out, but still based on a division of labor according to profession. The actors are also involved in conception and design as equal partners - a step in the training of the often-invoked independent actor.

This joint training is forward-looking and forms a solid foundation for the highly complex demands of professional life. The teaching and learning format has become deeply engrained in the hearts and minds of the students. For some it is the best experience of their studies, for others it is the start of long-term working friendships.

The plays

DRAMA! A
Premiere on October 16, 18:30 Small stage
2. Performance October 18 (Marathon), 3 p.m. Small Stage

Landen
By Laura Stern

Three friends in a hospital. Cana is in a coma after racist police violence. Bea and Nelly fall through the floors, from top to bottom and back up again. It's almost as if it's always been like this. Does the landing remain a hope or does it scare them? Is it all about the fall in the end?

Performers
Amelie Vogt, Anuthida Ploypetch, Leonida Gashi
Scenic design Niyousha Azari
Dramaturgy Lili Wind
Sound Emma Bröcker
Costume Jana Schwinger
Light Yaël Kolb

TNT
By Demian

War is difficult for most of us to imagine. Although it is constantly present in the news and is getting ever closer, it seems far removed from our private everyday lives, our life plans, our wishes, friendships and loves. But what if your best friend was planning to go to war? Would you be for or against it? Yes or no?

FAYE
...Speaking only from the head, I find it rather difficult to understand why we get so excited. Instead of behaving infantile or making decisions based on our hearts and thus losing time, it's best to
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BRILLY
Oh Faye, please don't describe this situation like daddy's little rationalist.

Performers
Played by
FAYE Emma Aichner
BRILLY Miriam Brodschelm
ICHI Kilian Pfeil Lacerda

Scenic design Marlene Reiter
Dramaturgy Elisabeth Hoppe
Lighting design David Sinkemat
Design consultant Frida Navratil

Asa&Mo//Plaatzwunden
By Lili Roesing

Asa and Mo have known each other their whole lives. Since early childhood, they have shared their dreams and fears, the view from the window of the prefabricated building and a deep friendship. But as they grow up, they have to ask themselves what holds them together apart from their memories. Is a shared past enough for a shared future, or do they have to let go of each other and a piece of their childhood?

Performers
Johanna Elena Basilico, Charly Schmidt
Scenic design Margit Pötzsch
Dramaturgy Violetta Zwick
Costume Emily Geist
Lighting design Lukas Mattern

Men Play
By Anton Fischer

In the shadow of contemporary military training, a small group of men play serious games. Activity formed from competition, aggression and comedy determines the scenes. This staged reading focuses on the linguistic formation of male speech and poses the question of the extent to which something like successful communication is even possible under male domination.

Performers
Aschif Kasem, Hannah Payr, Luise Unger, Flo Rieder
Scenic design Anna Maria Kluth
Dramaturgy Marion Avgeris
Lighting Till Gedack
Stage and costume Jakob Hauner, Lucas Zach
Make-up Alex Gut

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DRAMA!B
Premiere on October 17, 18:30 Small stage
2. Performance October 26 (Marathon), 3 p.m. Small Stage

The terror he holds in his hands is not ours
By Peppa Camila Briones E.

Hello, amiga.... I haven't called you girlfriend in a while, sorry.... Has everything been okay since I left? Is everything the same as always? ...... Hello.... I'm here to tell you... I think you already know, I think you already know what's going on, but you don't know that I've been through it too.... I'm here to tell you what you still can't tell me.

After ten years, a group of former classmates meet again for the first time and dive together into the memories of their own 13-year-old selves, trying to make it through the school system between pressure to perform, dance rehearsals and an abusive PE teacher.

Performers
Played by Lotta Paulina, Amanda Hauser, Fedra Valori, Evgenia Gurfinkel, Anastasia Lara Heller
Scenic design Louisa Schiedek
Costume Alexa Gieseler, Anouk Felscher, Caro Ruddigkeit
Stage Rosa Thiemer
Music Lori Brückner
Choreography Fedra Valori
Collaboration Crecencia Lucia Jiménez, Laura Bernhardt

Special thanks to Lena Ehlers and the Zündfunke e. V. team.V., Berenice Lewes and the students of the Goethe-Gymnasium-Hamburg, as well as the financial support of the AStA of the HAW Hamburg and the material support of the Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft.

Content Note
Mention of sexualized violence (no explicit depiction or detailed description). Sudden appearance of loud music and noises. Various text passages can be associated with suicidal behavior.

Leiben
By Sunan Gu

"We watch, we are watched. We dance, we are danced. We speak, we are spoken. A tear drips from our face. But we forget: Is it our tear?"
Where does the story end, where does reality begin? In Leiben, Xuan and Tobias transcend the boundaries of fiction and physicality and question the voyeuristic desire for authenticity and identity. The lights are on. My stage begins.

Performers
Tara Fischer, Felix Reitberger
Scenic design Nathalie Rosenbaum
Dramaturgy Rongji Liao
Stage and costume design Feng Li
Music Deniz Deli

RESOURCES
in a version for DRAMA! 2025
by Sunan Gu

In times of supposed abundance and social division, truth becomes a commodity and one's own voice becomes a survival tool. Based on this thesis, Sunan Gu sheds light on the everyday fates of various characters in Berlin's Wedding district and poetically interweaves them with questions about postmodern theater. In Aniol Kirberg's production, four performers present these stories and examine whether people (and animals and plants) can still meet as subjects capable of acting when everything threatens to melt away.

Performers
Aminata Toscano, Emma Gunderloch, Timotheos Auerbach, Valerie Madeleine
Scenic design Aniol Kirberg
Dramaturgy Paris Scholtz
Costume/scenography NN

Artistic directionEva-Maria Voigtländer, Cilli Drexel, Sabina Dhein
Lecturer Author:John vonDüffel
DirectorCilli Drexel
DramaturgEva-Maria Voigtländer
DramaturgPaul Marwitz-Seyffert
Professor Speech Training Hamburg Marc Aisenbrey
Professor Drama Hamburg Philipp Hauß
Professor Drama Hanover Volker Bürger
Production Management Ritter Paulsen UG
KBBKaja Gerken
Technical ManagementHannes Höhler
TechnologyPhilipp Dehnerdt, Kevin Neugebohren, Frithjof Krieger, Tino Wichmann
Video &DocumentationDocumentationWebCast team of the HfMT Hamburg
WebsiteTamara van Buiren, Sarah Rokohl

Eintritt frei

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There will be 4 performances on Thursday from 18:30 and 3 performances on Friday from 18:30. On Saturday there is the opportunity to see all the plays in a marathon.

Registration is required for all performances and can be made via eventbrite.

Premiere Part A, Thursday, 16.10.2025
18:30 Landen
19:15 TNT
20:00 Asa&Mo//Platzwunden
20:45 Männer Spielen

Premiere Part B, Friday, 17.10.2025
18:30 The terror he holds in his hands is not ours
19:15 Leiben
20:00 Resources

Marathon Part A+B, Saturday, 18.10.2025
15:00 Landen
15:45 TNT
16:30 Asa&Mo//Platzwunden
17:15 Männer Spielen
18:45 The terror he holds in his hands is not ours
19:30 Leiben
20:15 Ressourcen

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DRAMA! 2025 - a cooperation of the study program Scenic Writing
of the UdK Berlin, the study program Directing of the Ernst-Busch-Hochschule
Berlin, the study programs Directing Acting, Dramaturgy and Acting
of the HfMT Hamburg & the study program Acting of the HfMTM Hannover

Made possible by the Thörl Foundation and the Mara & Holger Cassens Foundation

Dates at a glance
16.10.2025
17.10.2025
18.10.2025