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Fatima Çalışkan

»Can I choose to be superficial and unapproachable?« In her monologue, Fatima Çalışkan is fascinated by the boredom and superficiality of pop-cultural men’s literature from the nineties and finds her feminist answer by babbling.


Inspired by Christian Kracht’s novel »Faserland« and babbling podcasts with a male double cast, she explores the cliché of the young, West German academic who goes through life as a checker surrounded by status symbols and successes over a glass of champagne.

In »Faserlandboys und Ich«, she scrutinises the pop-cultural zeitgeist of the turn of the millennium from a female, post-migrant perspective. Between bookshelves and piles of books, Fatima Çalışkan rambles back uninhibitedly, interweaves pop-cultural references and overwrites Kracht’s bestsellers with her voice and simply reviews her work herself in a literary quartet for the stage.

 
In her transdisciplinary work, Fatima Çalışkan develops political positions on biography and zeitgeist with a humorous and satirical approach. For the monologue »Faserland-Boys and I«, she draws on her own experiences of being pigeonholed by people into inappropriate orientalised categories and now turns the tables with relish.




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Artistic direction, performance, text Fatima Çalışkan

Dramaturgy and co-conception Felizitas Stilleke

Scenic realisation and co-direction Aurora Kellermann

Scenography and light design Raquel Rosildete

Costumes Andreína Vieira dos Santos

Public relations Nora Gores

Graphic Ana Maria Sales Prado

Photography Marcus Glahn

Audio Description Felix Koch und Johanna Krins

Production management Chris Wohlrab

Directing- and dramaturgy assistence Alena Kolbach

Stage assistence Marlena Wengler



A production by Fatima Çalışkan in co-production with TATWERK | Performative Research, in co-operation with Ballhaus Ost.

Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Media partner is taz. die tageszeitung.

Accessibility

  • With audio-descriptive introduction also without audio description
  • accessible for blind/visually impaired audiences

Dates
October 2024
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