Abdruckkörper - Theater by Yatri Niehaus

by Yatri Niehaus

(in German with English surtitles)

⚠️ Please note: strobe lighting is used during the performance.

The Afro-German protagonist of Abdruckkörper navigates his body with and against a prescribed direction - because the direction is already marked. German society appears as a labyrinth: walls produce visibility and exclusion, paths worn by others form networks of relationships and clusters of capital, whiteness is inscribed into the social fabric. The protagonist lurches.

His own body is the stake on the way up - moved, not always voluntarily, not always consciously. He follows the track while feeling the centrifugal forces pulling at him, the risk of breaking out. After all, the body is malleable, from within and without. And society?

Abdruckkörper is the theatrical debut of film director Yatri Niehaus. The dramatic text was written in the Unconventional Signs writing workshop at Ballhaus Naunynstraße (season 2020/21) and is the eighth Afro-German drama to have been created and staged at the venue - following works by Elizabeth Blonzen, Olivia Wenzel, Amina Eisner, Thandi Sebe, Toks Körner, and Atif Mohammed Nor Hussein.