Ich bin Pinguin / performance
Two eggs in an Antarctic snowstorm. From one hatches a penguin, from the other another bird. Together they experience adventures, they are each other all they have and all they know.
50'
Performance without words.
In programme
performance: Pia Katharina Jendreizik (actress), Andreas Pfaffenberger (puppeteer)
director: Wera Mahne
text, set, costumes and puppets: Anna Siegrot
video, dramaturgy, set: Declan Hurley
production: Esther Schneider
communication assistant (german sign language): Brice Stapelfeldt
introduction in polish sign languge: Dominika Mroczek-Dąbrowska
introduction in polish sign languge: Dominika Mroczek-Dąbrowska
Two eggs in an Antarctic snowstorm. From one hatches a penguin, from the other another bird. Together they experience adventures, they are each other all they have and all they know. The little bird takes the penguin as a mother and learns from her everything she knows. That‘s not much! After all, she has no wings to fly and can only waddle. The deaf actress Pia Jendreizik and the puppeteer Andreas Pfaffenberger tell this story about differences in friendship and family without a language.
LEUTE WIE DIE create theater in spoken and sign language. Since 2015 they have been working bilingual on the question of how deaf and hearing performers can act on stage equally, how the audience can participate and what aesthetics arise from this. Images, sounds and video play a special role to enable a common understanding beyond language. Theater space becomes a dialogue space with the audience, sometimes takes stillness to tell stories or lets the stage explode visually and acoustically.
Produced by Wera Mahne in co-production with FFT Düsseldorf; in cooperation with FELD Theater für Junges Publikum, Berlin; funded by the ministery for culture and sience of Northrhine-Westphalia and das Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen and the cultural office of Duesseldorf.
Supported by The Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation.
