Facade at the Theater Freiburg: An Urban Space-Wide Search for the Hidden
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Facade: When Freiburg's Urban Space Becomes a Stage of Memory
With Facade, the Theater Freiburg opens a stage experience that does not remain in the hall, but makes the public space itself a dramatic area. The performative walk leads through Freiburg's urban landscape, over places of memory and repression, and connects acting, research, and urban space into an intense theater atmosphere.
A Research Project that Goes Beneath the Surface
The production by Caroline Anne Kapp is conceived as a politically charged research project and is created in collaboration with the Documentation Center National Socialism Freiburg. At its core is a mural from the years 1936 to 1939, which once staged a supposed bathing idyll and simultaneously makes the ideology of National Socialism visible. From this finding, an evening develops that does not exhibit historical images in a museum-like manner but sets them in motion and charges them with the present.
Urban Space, Walk, Perspective Shift
The route itself makes the gaze an instrument. From the Theater Freiburg, it goes over the Old Synagogue Square to the Documentation Center National Socialism and further into Colombi Park. This pathway gives the performance a special dramaturgy: The urban space becomes not a backdrop, but a co-actor. Gravel, grass, and asphalt shape the perception, while the ensemble rubs past and present against each other together with the Methusalems, the senior theater.
An Evening Between Knowledge, Body, and Emotion
Facade relies on the power of presence. The headset, the movement through the city, the direct confrontation with historical traces, and the open air create a concentrated, almost tangible tension. This is precisely where the authority of the project lies: it combines academically grounded memory culture with artistic condensation and makes the facade of a city readable as a societal question. For visitors, it creates a theater experience that not only informs but resonates.
Conclusion: Theater That Makes Freiburg Readable Again
Facade promises an evocative theater walk through Freiburg that brings history, present, and urban space into a touching form. Those who engage with this mobile production experience not an ordinary performance but a precise, multifaceted, and sensory confrontation with memory. Be there live and discover Freiburg's hidden layers.
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