Our Pit

Who owns a place that children have made for themselves? And why do adults always have to interfere?

pulk fiktion - awarded the Tabori Prize in 2025, the most prestigious honour in Germany's independent theatre scene - brings the picture book "Our Pit" by Emma AdBåge to the stage. The book won the German Youth Literature Prize in 2022. Created in genuine collaboration with young people, the performers use live music and direct audience contact to ask the big questions about living together: What are adults actually afraid of? When do rules make sense - and when do they just get in the way? Who owns public spaces, and who gets to set the rules?

An honest piece about the freedom to play, imagination, and the relationship between children and adults. For the whole family.

Direction: Hannah Biedermann | Performance: Marouf Alhassan, Simon Brinkmann, Julia Hofstaedter | Music: Simon Brinkmann | Dramaturgy: Lisa Zehetner | Design: Ria Papadopoulou | Education: Hannah Dijksma | JUNGERpulk: Sima Razmjo Airamloze, Laureano Jäkel Botano, Elsa Müller Dacristan, Fynn Gregorius, Mila May, Ecenaz Ökmen, Mejrem Sadrijaj | Technical: Peter Behle, Gerd Weidig, Mirko Krejci | Production Management: Lise Wolle

World premiere: 07.12.2024. A co-production by pulk fiktion with Freies Werkstatt Theater Köln and FFT Düsseldorf. Based on the picture book of the same name by Emma AdBåge (German translation: Friederike Buchinger, Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim, 2021).