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529 km to the Future
A joint programme by the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin and the Narodowy Stary Teatr in Cracow (Poland) - supported by the Wanderlust Fund
Berlin and Cracow are only 529 km apart. Yet these European cultural cities are separated far more by a history of injury and destruction, mutual prejudices and differing views. The joint programme by the Maxim Gorki Theater and the Narodowy Stary Teatr will focus on the theatrical adaptation of Ernst Lubitsch's film classic "To Be or Not To Be", a comedy about the German occupiers in Poland that also examines the interaction of art and reality. Both theatres will organize a competition open to young filmmakers, playwrights, actors and performers to generate ideas for unusual artistic interventions along the train route connecting Cracow and Berlin. The goal is to redraw the map that spans these 529 kilometres.
Theatres: Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin and Narodowy Stary Teatr, Cracow
Artists / participants: Hilke Altefrohne, Anika Baumann, Mikołaj Grabowski (PL), Robert Kuchenbuch, Michael Klammer, Peter Kurth, Ronald Kukulies, Carmen Wolfram, Kathrin Müller, Ewa Kaim (PL), Wojtek Klemm (PL), Milan Peschel, Armin Petras, Anna Radwan-Gancarczyk (PL), Anja Schneider, Barbara Wysocka (PL), Malzorgata Zawadzka (PL), Arkadiusz Brykalski (PL), Juliuisz Chrzastowsk (PL)
Schedule:
May 2009 - September 2011
Artistic Areas:
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| 15.06.2010 | Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin | "Czekajac na Turka" Guest performance of Narodowy Stary Teatr Cracow |
| 27.03.2011 | Narodowy Stary Teatr, Cracow (Poland) | "Sein oder Nichtsein" (Dir: Milan Peschel) Premiere of the German-Polish co-production |
| 14.04.2011 | Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin | "Sein oder Nichtsein" (Dir: Milan Peschel) Germany-Premiere of the German-Polish co-production |
| 11.06.2011, 7.30 a.m. | EC "Wawel", Cracow-Berlin | "Krákow-Berlin-XPRS" Train performance |
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Contact:
Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin
Armin Petras
Am Festungsgraben 2
10117 Berlin
www.gorki.de
Further Informations
The Wanderlust Fund
The German Federal Cultural Foundation established the Wanderlust Fund to support German municipal and state theatres that wish to engage in a partnership of exchange with a foreign theatre for a period of two to three seasons.
Wanderlust blog
In February 2010 the participating theatres began sharing their impressions of their joint meetings, workshops, guest performances and co-productions in our Wanderlust blog. In addition each season, three Pfadfinder (scouts) head out and visit the Wanderlust projects, describe the international theatre partnerships and document these exciting cross-border encounters in texts and images.
