Fatima Moumouni: Die Neue Unsicherheit – Berlin Edition with Fatma Aydemir & LEGION SEVEN – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Fatima Moumouni:
Die Neue Unsicherheit – Berlin Edition with Fatma Aydemir & LEGION SEVEN
In this talk series, the aim is not to train people out of saying “um...” – it is actively sought! What does a safer space for uncertainty look like? Is that possible on stage? Zurich artist Fatima Moumouni will be a guest at Sophiensæle in February as a Freischwimmen resident, presenting her talk series Die Neue Unsicherheit (The New Uncertainty), which she has been curating in Zurich since 2020. Moments of conversation that are allowed to be thoughtful, self-critical, and unreservedly insecure are brought to the stage – guests and moderator are equally unsettled and neither is token nor messiah. Just communal reflection – because when it comes to progressive discourse, there is still much to think about – almost by definition – beyond the pitiful question of WHAT ARE YOU EVEN ALLOWED TO SAY THESE DAYS?
In the Berlin edition of her series, Fatima Moumouni will talk to writer Fatma Aydemir about writing and being in the public eye, about feelings of responsibility, polarization, and artistic freedom – and about Toni Morisson’s quote, which has become a mantra for artists: “There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” But where to put one’s own hopelessness, fear, and need to process when the world is burning?
The conversation will be framed by performances by storyteller and musician LEGION SEVEN. Following the conversation, there will be a hangout with a playlist curated by LEGION SEVEN of specially purchased (not streamed) music from “friends, lovers, comrades making music – no matter what.” The audience is invited to stay in the space and let the conversation come to a close together.
The information on accessibility is still in progress and will be updated as soon as possible. If any questions remain unanswered until then, please feel free to contact the communication department at barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35. Please note that details may change by the day of the event. Therefore, if you find out after you have purchased your ticket that the performance is no longer accessible to you, you can contact us for a ticket return at ticketing@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 45 until 5 business days after the event (Monday through Friday between 10am and 6pm).
Early boarding
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.
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By and with: Fatima Moumouni
With: Fatma Aydemir, LEGION SEVEN
An event by Sophiensæle as part of Freischwimmen. The production is supported by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council. Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.
Fatima Moumouni writes texts (spoken word, rap, theater, columns) and performs on stage (text performances, moderations, post-foreign late-night show) and lives in Zurich. In addition to solo performances, she tours with Laurin Buser, currently with the spoken word piece COLD. In 2022, the two were awarded the Salzburger Stier. They wrote the plays Bullestress (2022) and Ich chan es Zündhölzli azünde (2023) for the Schauspielhaus Zurich, and a version of Räuber Hotzenplotz (2020) and Die weisse Madonna von Einsiedeln (2026) for Theater Basel. Moumouni also contributed texts to the plays Last Night a DJ Took My Life (2024) by Joana Tischkau at the Schauspielhaus Zürich and Leyla.Fragmente by Miriam Ibrahim at the Staatstheater Hannover. Moumouni also devises talk formats, such as her series of discussions Die Neue Unsicherheit (The New Uncertainty) – a plea for more uncertainty on stage as a catalyst for progressive discourse. In 2023, she received the City of Zurich’s Cultural Award in the category of dance/theater.
Fatma Aydemir is a writer and columnist for the British daily newspaper The Guardian. Her novels Ellbogen (2017) and Dschinns (2022) have won multiple awards and been adapted for other media. Her play Doktormutter Faust premiered in 2023. She is co-editor of the literary magazine Delfi.
LEGION SEVEN (*1993 in Brampton, Canada) is a storyteller. Their work is a vehicle in refractive departure from the biblical cult rigidity into which they were born. The wreckage of this rigidity, strewn with dream-mythology, science-fiction, chaos-logic and exuberant lies, lays the path on which Seven gains momentum and puts momentum on display. Winner of the 2018 Basler Medienkunstpreis and 2019 Basel Kulturförderpreis.
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Fatima Moumouni © Jonathan Labusch -
Fatma Aydemir © Bahar Kaygusuz -
LEGION SEVEN © Katrina Singleton