Award of the German ITI Centre

Program

Presentation of the Prize of the German Centre of ITI 2024 to KULA Compagnie followed by a film screening (German and English)

The KULA Compagnie is exemplary of a transnational, multilingual theatre that brings together artistic practice of the most diverse aesthetics and humanitarian commitment. In changing collaborations with artists from different countries, playful and politically controversial laboratory formats are created, often as rewrites of canonical texts from a contemporary perspective.’
(from the jury statement)

4 pm Laudatio Barbara Mundel / Artistic Director Münchner Kammerspiele
Presentation of the Prize Yvonne Büdenhölzer / ITI President
Statement Robert Schuster / Artistic Director KULA Compagnie

4.45 pm Film screening followed by a reception
KULA Compagnie: DAS FÜNFTE RAD (2022), ein Film aus dem afghanischen Untergrund, gefilmt mit Telefonen aus dem Verborgenen
Farsi und Deutsch, mit deutschen Untertiteln

Since the withdrawal of the allied troops, the artists of the all-female Simorgh Theatre in Herat have been rushing from hideout to hideout. On their flight, they deal with texts "From the Reading Book for City Dwellers" by Bertolt Brecht and bring into the picture what this perspective makes possible. Robert Schuster and the KULA Compagnie see themselves as transmitters between these women and a European public.

A production of the KULA Compagnie for the Brecht Festival Augsburg in co-production with the Ruhrfestspiele

www.kulacompagnie.eu