Family Feeling Factory
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| free admission |
| Duration: 90 min |
| 14 years and older |
| German |
| Mechanical Arena in the Foyer |
| Belongs to: Hide or Tell? |
In the performance Family Feeling Factory, 36 young people work with artist Juliane Meckert to create images of the family of the future, asking moving questions about our present
This is the year of 3020. Families no longer live on a single planet, but in two worlds: one being a warm, golden world of women full of cats and one being a landscape of singing forests and orchards. Memories appear as light, communication takes place via gestures, vibrations, and thoughts. And yet some phrases remain: “Don’t stay out too long,” “Never give up.”
In the participatory setting, the audience is invited to contribute their own memories, perspectives, and experiences. What is family? Who belongs to it? What stories do we tell—and which ones remain untold?
Through movement, music, text, and performative sequences, a space of experience is created in which the future and everyday life flow into one another. The young people weave personal perspectives with collective utopias and open doors to spaces that are otherwise rarely entered. They show family as a system in motion: a place of closeness and confinement, of rules and secrets, of care and chaos. A structure that produces feelings like a factory – tender, rebellious, overwhelming.
The Family Feeling Factory shows family as a feeling, as a construction, as a space of possibilities – and as a network of many voices, times, and worlds. The performance becomes a mirror and a laboratory for the future. It reveals what connects us, what challenges us, what we pass on. All those present are invited to rethink family—as an open, flexible form of coexistence.
Family Feeling Factory is part of Humboldting! A School Research Project, a long-term project of the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss at the intersection of education and art. Artistic direction: Alice Fleming and Darren O’Donnell.
Participating students:
Solaf, Ceylin, Kaan, Elli, Hamid, Duru, Julina, Ecem, Bao Chau, Zara, Sabrija, Nahla, Evelina, Ceylin, Havin, Buse, Eylül, Sarina, Selina, Enzo, Solange, Mehmet, Hanna, Ariya, Varvara, Aylin, Kira, Soraya, Iman, Dayaa, Laia, Cinzia, Lamija, Pia, Asya, Princess
Please note: The performance will be recorded for documentation purposes.
Participants
Juliane Meckert (*1982, Leipzig) is a freelance actress, director, theater pedagogue and author in Berlin. She studied acting at the Mozarteum Salzburg and works both on and off stage. Stages have included Festspielhaus Hellerau, Steirischer Herbst, Mica Moca, Sophiensäle, Lofft, das Theater and Staatsschauspiel Dresden. She is part of the collectives Fritzpunkt, internil, wilde pferde, collective bleeding and WESSER | MECKERT. Her plays deal with socio-political issues, including Næste Station Stengårdsvej(2021) about Danish ghetto laws, Gefährten (2021) about human-animal relationships, Wir kriegen Euch Alle! (2022) on the baseball bat years and Unser Land (2023) on Sorbian-German relations. Her work is characterized by site-specific, performative and participatory formats in collaboration with so-called “experts of everyday life” and with a focus on space, ritual, memory and transformation.
Mathias Baresel aka Ted Brasko is a Berlin-based composer, director, and performer who creates emotionally rich and well-structured works in music and theatre. He works intuitively but also values craft, bringing a strong sense of dramaturgy to everything he does. His work is driven by the belief that emotions should take center stage – not just as themes, but as the very substance of artistic experience.
Philine Stich (born in Leipzig in 1992) studied stage and costume design (KHB Weißensee) and has been active in the independent scene for over 10 years as a performer, director, lighting designer and in the field of child and youth work. In her work as an artist, she attaches great importance to the development of collective, democratic and feminist structures in order to enable a process-oriented and collaborative artistic practice. She is interested in theatrical spaces for experimentation that explore the aesthetic practice of political theatre, combined with the search for social contradictions, points of friction and their movement towards change. She is part of the Fabriktheater Moabit collective, which has been staging immersive performances at the Kulturfabrik since 2019 and curating an intercultural programme. Since 2023, she has been working with Fabriktheater Moabit to further expand school partnerships and theatre education programmes for children and young people, and will take over the cultural management of the Kulturfabrik Moabit’s children’s and youth work in the future.
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