WELTweit… Neu / WORLDwide…New (2013-2014)

Is the world, in fact, reality or is the world just what we imagine? 60 children from the Nürtingen primary school in Kreuzberg in Berlin spent over a year searching for possible answers.

This urban-ethnographic experiment is based on video interviews, the students examined the social diversity in their environment. They were confronted with various topics: asylum seekers, politics, drug dealers, immigration and government. By means of theatre methodology and video documentation the research was made visible and tangible. The information about a wide variety of lifestyles and identities acquired in the interview workshop was then staged. Acting, directing, storytelling, costume design, visual arts and music were the engine that set in motion a major negotiation process in a three-week game and ritual. It turned out that identities and realities can be reconstructed. And that, just as with the world, things can be changed.