FOTZENSCHLEIMPOWER GEGEN RAUBTIERKAPUTTALISMUS - Von und mit Mateja Meded

Between Balkan rage and Berlin's bluntness unfolds a radically personal evening: loud, vulnerable, witty - and deeply political. This solo performance cuts with surgical precision against shame, conformity, and cultural propriety.

What happens when we stop wanting to please?

Fotzenschleimpower is not a play. It's a ghetto-intellectual uprising with humour, a survival strategy, a collective cry against shame, conformity, class, and cultural propriety. As the festival's opening piece, Fotzenschleimpower sold out instantly. Not because it played it safe - but because it hit home. And perhaps because, for the first time, it tells the story of what it means to be a woman with a refugee background with agency and without victim-migrant-folklore clichés.

Between Balkan rage, Berlin's bluntness, pop, trauma, body, desire, and class reality, a radically personal performance unfolds: autofictional, loud, vulnerable, witty, and unapologetically political. A piece about Berlin - about origins, stories of ascent, gentrification, precarity, contradiction, and life in between.

Fotzenschleimpower reclaims the devalued, the slimy, the vulgar, the uncomfortable. It thinks ghetto-intellectually, feels collectively, and transforms powerlessness into agency. What happens when we stop wanting to please? When we tell our own stories - beyond high culture, shame, and false class?

Fotzenschleimpower is an invitation to alliance. Powerful. Vicious. Funny. Uncomfortable. From us. For us.