Svealena Kutschke

A apartment building in Berlin. In it: an old drunkard, a lesbian couple, a fugitive, a depressed woman and her ex-husband. Around the everyday life, the juxtaposition and coexistence of these six characters, numerous contemporary questions arise such as gentrification and displacement, but above all our dealings with strangers - with people who we do not understand, be it because of culture, origin or even just because of misunderstandings and distorted views. The clearly drawn characters develop different strategies to deal with self-alienation and with foreignness in the world; they compete in a hierarchy of misery for the best reasons to ruin themselves. Svealena Kutschke draws in at our feet, the gold, disappeared from the ground a precise social panorama and lets her antiheroes speak as eloquently as highly reflectedly: Their apparent power of language, which knows about the backgrounds and depths of their own situation, tells above all about their powerlessness. (Announcement Deutsches Theater, Berlin)