Enad Marouf: Losers – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Enad Marouf: Losers
Bringing together text, dance and music through a cinematic lens, Losers by Enad Marouf invites the audience to trace a moment of political loss. In his new performance, Marouf revisits writings that read history from the standpoint of the oppressed and defeated. The performance brings Walter Benjamin’s On the Concept of History (1940) into conversation with Arwa Salih’s The Stillborn (1996). Benjamin’s “Angel of History” faces the wreckage of the past while being propelled backwards into the future by “the storm called progress”. Salih writes about the aftermath of the Egyptian Marxist student movement of 1972, examining the disillusionment of a revolutionary generation and the contradictions that continued to haunt it. Both Benjamin and Salih reject history as a smooth narrative of progress, turning instead towards its failures, losses and unrealised possibilities.
Losers understands loss or defeat not solely as an ending, but as a question of what has failed, what has been suppressed and what might still be possible. To think from the position of the loser is less about finding concrete answers than about asking how defeat might become a space for reflection and for imagining togetherness otherwise.
In simple words
In his performance, Enad Marouf looks back at the 1960s and 70s. Back then, many people protested for freedom and a better future. Today, this is harder to imagine. The audience and artists think about it 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.
Tickets
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You can also find more information about accessibility at the house here.
Concept, choreography: Enad Marouf
Performance: Ronald Alonso Berger, jee chan, Kiana Rezvani
Voice: Majdoleen Shalgheen, Bassyma Saad
Music: Cem Dukka
Stage: Enad Marouf
Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag
Choreographic assistance: Samuel Pereira
In conversation with: Franziska Aigner, Edwin Nasr
Production management: Florian Greß
A production by Enad Marouf in co-production with Sophiensæle. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.
Enad Marouf is a Syrian-German performance and video artist based in Berlin. His work focuses on body and text, using video, dance, language and installation as poetics and articulation of temporalities that influence our physicality and the way we narrate the world around us. He completed his Masters in Choreography and Performance at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Gießen/Frankfurt. His solo works and collaborations have been shown at Sophiensæle, the Athens Biennale, Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussels, Centre culturel Francais de Damas, Babel Beirut, Tate Modern London, Art Institute of Chicago, Shedhalle Zurich, Kampnagel and Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, among others. In 2023, he was awarded the prestigious Will Grohmann Prize.
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