Turbo Pascal: Selbstbeschwichtigung – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Turbo Pascal:
Selbstbeschwichtigung
Selbstbeschwichtigung
Loosely based on Peter Handke’s text Selbstbezichtigung (1965), Turbo Pascal collected confessions from citizens and contemporaries in 2016. Now the group is inviting all to a collective self-reassurance and is allowing for the Sophiensaele to turn into a public place of self-accusation. The group makes their way on a walk of repentance - talking, schlepping and shedding away the guilty feelings of all those present. The audience confesses, judges, talks freely or imposes appropriate probation charges.
CONCEPT Turbo Pascal WITH Angela Löer, Friedrich Greiling, Frank Oberhäußer, Eva Plischke, Margret Schütz SPACE Janina Janke MUSIC Friedrich Greiling ASSISTANCE Selina Lukesch
Produced by Turbo Pascal in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by the Mayor of Berlin - Senate Chancellery - Cultural Affairs.
photo © Manuel Kinzer
Turbo Pascal develops interactive performances that turn the theater into a meeting and negotiation space for social processes, dynamics and utopias. The collective also realizes participatory projects with citizens who, due to their biographies, bring contradictory perspectives into play and conceives formats for discussions and encounters. The collective works continuously with the Sophiensæle, Theater an der Parkaue and Bürger:Bühne am Staatsschauspiel Dresden. Performances have been invited to numerous festivals in German-speaking countries (including Impulse Theater Festival, Politik im Freien Theater). Turbo Pascal was awarded the George Tabori Prize in 2018.
