Batman - A German-Kurdish Story, Told Differently

Celle, 1984: the economy is faltering, jobs are disappearing. Many Germans see only one way out - emigration. Not to America, but to the economically booming eastern Turkey, to Batman. They go there as guest workers, hoping to make their fortune: on construction sites, in workshops, in the daily life of an unfamiliar world.

What if history could be reversed? What if Germans had been forced to leave home in search of safety and work - without a language course, without connections, dependent on the patience of a society that looks on in bewilderment and asks: who are these people with the sauerkraut?

At the heart of this fictional story is Jörg P., who finds work as a barber in Batman. Between the bazaar and the barbershop, he navigates language barriers, culture shocks, and teahouses with no asparagus in sight. Inspired by the real-life stories of Kurdish families from Celle and accompanied by songs from well-known Kurdish artists, the theatre evening at HALLE 19 brings two cultures together.

A poetic interplay about leaving and arriving, about home and belonging.