Dynamic Manifest

How can an apparatus be reorganised while its operations are ongoing? How does this reorganisation agree with contracts bound by collective bargaining laws, with habitual hierarchies, an aversion to co-determination and the pressure to produce? How can we consider anti-racism, queer feminism, climate equality and anti-capitalism in the spirit of solidarity; how can we truly realise material equality and radically democratic participation? Does the answer to these questions lie in an anti-hierarchical theatre that operates under principles of self-organisation and organically coalesces with the urban society?

The multi-voiced Gruppe Neues Theater (Group New Theatre) (Working Title) has been discussing these issues and more for some time, both internally and in conversation with experts and activists. In the context of Theatertreffen, the group will present initial results in the form of their “dynamic manifest” and enter into a discussion with invited guests and the audience.