Press contact
Nora Gores
Tel. (+49) 30.34 74 598 44
presse(at)ballhausnaunynstrasse(dot)de
Özlem Cengel Götzelt
International Press & Project Management
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The Ballhaus Naunynstraße, having undergone some minor reconstruction, reopened on 7th November 2008 within the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. Under the new artistic direction of Shermin Langhoff a broad network of artists from the second and third generation, amongst them Fatih Akın, Mıraz Bezar, Nuran David Calis, Neco Çelik, Ceza, Canan Erek, Nurkan Erpulat, Modjgan Hashemian, Kadir Memiş, Hakan Savaş Mican, Mehdi Moinzadeh, Michael Ronen, İdil Üner, Feridun Zaimoğlu and many others, performed at the Ballhaus.
The first season 2008/2009 opened with the Festival Dogland – Young Postmigrant Theatre presenting six theatre and dance productions and came to a close with four more productions, all receiving extraordinary audience and media interest. Since its opening, the venue and its productions have attracted a polymigrant audience from all generations and played to almost full houses throughout. Various productions, such as Holiday Camp – the 3rd Generation, Class Reunion – the 2nd Generation and ZEY´BrEak, have toured in Germany and abroad.
The main emphasis lies on theatre production, but there is also a strong interest in the latest developments in dance, film, music and literature. Cultural education projects as well as co-operations with independent companies such as Balkan Black Box, Conflict Zone Arts Asylum, Diyalog and others will complete the programme.
This unique theatre with its postmigrant cultural praxis offers artists a platform for developing art with a “translocal perspective”. Looking out beyond a national framework, exchange, as well as interdisciplinarity and continuity are important aspects of our programming.
Arts education projects such as Monthly Kiez Show: News from Naunynstraße and Holiday Camp – the 3rd Generation are part of the academy of autodidacts which aims to gather forces in order to offer young people from socially disadvantaged backgrounds the opportunity to work and develop within cultural and artistic projects.
The Ballhaus Naunynstraße is an institution of the district Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, programming co-operation with Kultursprünge e.V., supported by the Senatskanzlei für Kulturelle Angelegenheiten Berlin.