Freischwimmer 2014/2015 - Intim

The fusion of private and public life is the ubiquitous topic of our times.  Social networks, reality-tv, spying scandals and surveillance – all these have become everyday phenomena. But how exactly does this translate from private life over into the intimate? This year’s Freischwimmer Festival is sending seven artists and groups out on the search for intimacy. Where does the difference between intimacy and privacy lie? How can this even be addressed in a public theater? Where can boundaries be drawn or crossed, perspectives be inverted, flipping the inside out, or sharing phobias and desires? Freischwimmer 2014/15 finds intimacy in Danish television and Austrian train stations, in slippery radio shows or motherly gyms, at the taxidermists’, in unusual family stories or in a very private dance performance in a public space.

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DRAMATURGY Marcus Droß, Christiane Kretschmer, Christoph Rech, Kathrin Veser, Eva Wolfesberger PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT, INSTALLATION FOYER Marc Pohl PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE Joy Harder FESTIVALCOACH Johanna Höhmann TECHNICAL DIRECTION Hannes Ruschbaschan TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Ignacio Buquete TRAINEE PRODUCTION Marie-Claire Perge

FREISCHWIMMER 2014/15 is a joint project of SOPHIENSÆLE, FFT Düsseldorf, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main, brut Wien and Gessnerallee Zürich. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and Regierende Bürgermeister von Berlin – Senatskanzlei - Kulturelle Angelegenheiten, also by Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, Kulturamt Frankfurt/Main, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Autorenstiftung Frankfurt am Main, Kulturamt der Stadt Gießen, Gerda Weiler Stiftung, Fazit Stiftung, Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaften, 

Stiftung für Radio und Kultur Schweiz, Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien, Land Oberösterreich, Bundeskanzleramt Österreich, Österreichisches Kulturforum Brüssel, Stadt Zürich Kultur, Pro Helvetia Schweizer Kulturstiftung und Migros Kulturprozent. We acknowledge the support of The Circus Hotel and Zeit für Brot. Media partner: taz.die tagezeitung, zitty and multicult fm.

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