"Fugue of experience: Life stories in the border region before and after 1989"

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Revivals of FUGE/FUGA 89 are announced under Dates.

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FUGE 89, DIE BÜHNE, Dresden

FUGA 89, Premiere im Veřejný sál Hraničář, Ústí nad Labem

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About the project

© Maximilian Helm (Hintergrundfoto: Stadtmuseum und Archiv der Stadt Ústí nad Labem)

A cooperation project with the association Veřejný sál Hraničář in Ústí nad Labem and DIE BÜHNE - das Theater TU Dresden.

The MitteleuropaZentrum and its project partners are preparing a staged performance entitled "FUGE 89" for the Czech-German Culture Days 2019.

We are gathering the material from interviews with contemporary witnesses conducted in Dresden and the Ústí nad Labem region. The result is a pool of first-person testimonies about the experiences of the political changes of 1989 in Saxony and the Czech Republic, which open up a new perspective on the much-discussed problem of 'stolen biographies'.

The dramaturgical treatment of these testimonies places them in a new constellation in which opinions and experiences confirm, complement and contradict each other; the result is - as in a musical fugue - a togetherness and opposition of voices from which a common, tense space of experience becomes recognizable in the performance.

The performances will take place in Dresden and Ústí nad Labem. They are bilingual and subtitled in the other language.

Veronika Kyrianová is responsible for the dramaturgy.
The direction is in the hands of Matthias Spaniel (for the Dresden performance) and the artist duo VerRich (for the performance in Ústí nad Labem).
They play performers from Dresden and northern Bohemia.

Dates:

November 8, 2019, 8:15 pm, DIE BÜHNE, Dresden
November 10, 2019, 7:00 pm, Veřejný sál Hraničář, Ústí nad Labem
November 13 - December 4, 2020, online re-performance of FUGA 89
November 17, 2021, 19:00, Veřejný sál Hraničář, Ústí nad Labem

The project is funded by the European Union and the Czech-German Future Fund through the Elbe/Labe Euroregion Small Projects Fund.

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