HOMELAND.evening
A search for evidence and a theatrical terminological definition of the German word “Heimat”
“Home, the place that does not exist, not ever, not anywhere.
The Home we are looking for to protect us from all that is
strange, all that is new. It is only on our way there that
we live, create, invent. On arrival, we stand still and
everything stops, frozen in fear of losing Home.
So once again we set out to search for Home and
to discover the unknown. Not a place, not a feeling,
not childhood memories. All these we have in our trouser
pocket to be carried with us, always.” (Georg Peetz)
Initially, there was a collection: materials, objects, keepsakes,
scents and smells, memories, written texts, terminology and expressions,
words, sounds and music, each and all of them associated in the most diverse
ways with the theme in question.
The show is like a chain of associations in connection with diverse aspects of
the term “HOMEland”. Action usually takes place on three levels and the
members of the audience are enticed to make choices in order
to collate their own personal expression of Home.
Three actors process and translate the scientific and
the puzzling, the literary and the pragmatic and
thus create an individual organism: an evening
of contrasts between Kitsch and Art.
Created and enacted by Karin Ersching,
Georg Peetz, Frank Soehnle
Advice: Marcus Dürr
Masks: Udo Schneeweiß
Puppets: Frank Soehnle
Music: Johannes Frisch+Stefan Mertin (rat’n’X)
Premiere: 15.05.2009, franz.K, Reutlingen