Caroline Creutzburg + René Alejandro Huari Mateus:
Die Vielhundertjährigen

The play explores the theme of ageing and tells a fictional story about the brain as an exo-organ.

If any questions remain from the following information, please feel free to contact Hannah Aldinger at barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35. Please note that details may change by the day of the event.

The performance lasts approx. 60 minutes and uses German spoken and written language. It is suitable for an audience of 12 years and older. In some places it gets a bit louder. On stage, words are written on the wall. The words are "Ausgrabungsstätte Silicon Valley" and "(Nackt)Badestelle". However, the words are not essential for understanding the performance. In one scene, a few lines from an English song are sung. There is an interactive scene in which a performer approaches the audience in a friendly way. A person from the audience is asked to hold and weigh a brain made of Styrofoam.

The audience sits mostly in the dark. During the interactive scene, the lights in the audience turn on. The audience area is seated in the last row. In the rows in front, there are seat cushions on the tiered bleachers. There are two wheelchair seats and two beanbag seats in the front row, which can be reserved or purchased in the online ticket shop or at the box office, depending on availability. Due to the Christmas market in Sophienstraße, the Sophiensaele cannot be accessed by car on 26 and 27 November.If, for artistic reasons, the door to the auditorium does not open until very shortly before the performance begins, there is the option of early boarding. This is early admission for all people (especially those with visible or non-visible disabilities) who want a specific seat or a more relaxed entrance. Early Boarding usually starts 10-20 minutes before the performance starts. The meeting point is next to the bar. Five minutes before Early Boarding begins, an audience announcement will be made on the spot to draw your attention to it. Our evening staff will be happy to help you find the meeting point.

You can also find more information about accessibility here.

CONCEPT, ARTISTIC DIRECTION Caroline Creutzburg CO-DIRECTOR René Alejandro Huari Mateus CO-DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE Margret Barra, Karin Krohn, Dita Rita Scholl, Christine Tischkau, Monika Zimmering CO-DEVELOPMENT Agyana Tosch COSTUME, EXO-ORGANS Artemiy Shokin STAGE David Reiber Otálora LIGHTING, TECHNICAL DIRECTION  Hannah Brown SOUND Fernando Quartana CONTRIBUTOR EDITOR Eva Königshofen OUTSIDE EYE Clara Reiner ASSISTANCE Luca Plaumann PUBLIC WORK Claudia Redka ARTISTIC PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Carmen Salinas

A production by Caroline Creutzburg in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE. Supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe of the State of Berlin, by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the framework of NEUSTART KULTUR and by the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt. Media partner: taz, die tageszeitung.

CAROLINE CREUTZBURG, born in East Berlin, initiates stage projects in which she explores the possibilities of figurative self-representation and displacement of subjectivities. She is always accompanied by the question of the supposedly banal, of implicit forms of address, of the values of entertainment and the emancipatory in showing and in watching. RENÉ ALEJANDRO HUARI MATEUS choreographs dances that celebrate the more-than-human, pursuing a naïve stubbornness: to defy the windmills of institutionalized discrimination, which in Germany occasionally allows some dances to be choreographed by some non-Germans. Caroline and René have already collaborated in Caroline's performance Woman With Stones and conducted workshops together with young people and senior citizens on self-expression and self-perception in digital spaces.