With the last plane leaving during the evacuation of Kabul airport, Afghanistan also closed itself off for/to the German-Afghan protagonist in LANDSFRAU. The withdrawal of the Bundeswehr marks her starting point for an autofictional journey through her memories of an Afghanistan that may never have existed. Together with the audience the protagonist/she dissects overrepresented western perspectives, images, and narratives about Afghanistan, rewriting them as a collage of biographical episodes, stories of nostalgia and fantasy, Afghan music and choreographical elements. The protagonist struggles with her sense of guilt from living a “peaceful” life in diaspora. This solo performance paints a multilayered, richly detailed image of her life in the diaspora — with its challenges and its privileges.

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Andrej Agranovski, Paul Calderone, Leonard Dick, Alessa Maria Karešin, Cornelius Reitmayr, Amelie Sabbagh, Lars Werner, Mariann Yar

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Premiered at Berliner Ringtheater, 21. – 3th of August 2023

Re-Staged/Revival at Berliner Ringtheater, 1. – 10th of November 2024

On Tour/Guest Performances in am Schauspielhaus Bochum, Schauspiel Dortmund, Schauspiel Hannover, Theater und Orchester Heidelberg, Staatstheater Mainz, Landestheater Marburg und Staatstheater Wiesbaden

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Funded by the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt of the State of Berlin and by the District Cultural Fond of Berlin-Mitte. Supported by the ITI Academy of the International Theatre Institute - German Centre.

LANDSFRAU was funded during its production phase by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR.

The revival was funded by the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt of the State of Berlin.