Leben. In Diktaturen. Die Leipziger Dichterin Daniela Delphine Döring und der syrische Musiker Ghaith Al Shaar untersuchen in ihrem Programm die Auswirkungen von Diktaturen in verschiedenen Epochen und Ländern. Sie beleuchten sowohl die traumatisierenden, jeweils mehrere nachfolgende Generationen beeinflussenden Umstände als auch die Überlebensstrategien und unzerstörbaren Potentiale des zeitweise seiner Entscheidungsfreiheit beraubten Menschen. Sie bedienen sich dabei auch der Mittel des stummen Theaters. Es werden eigene Texte Dörings als auch Gedichte anderer Autoren, die damit vor dem Vergessen bewahrt werden sollen, gelesen. Beispielsweise Texte des guatemaltekischen Dichters Otto René Castillo und des DDR-Oppositionellen Günter Ullmann. Außerdem erinnert die Veranstaltung an Menschen wie Sophie Scholl, Jürgen Fuchs, Robert Desnos, René Char und jüdische Schrtiftsteller. Ghaith Al Shaar spielt auf der Oud. Er ist in Damaskus ausgebildeter Hornist und studiert in Berlin Musikwissenschaft. Ahoi Lampedusa
The fate of the over 300 refugees who perished just off the coast of Lampedusa is already yesterday's news.
Yet this and other similar tragedies bring the desperate plot of refugees into the mainstream.
Unfortunately, it seems the only way to attract attention is when large numbers of people die in avoidable circumstances.
For most Europeans, they will find the story of someone who was forced to leave everything familiar behind to assure their survival in their own family histories and their grandparents' generations experienced this first hand. Yet this issue is not a factor in most people's daily lives.
What affect might this have on those who had relatives on the aforementioned boat? Everyday, they read or hear or see stories about those who desperately try to make it to these shores, safely. What do we know about their perspective?
What factors, other than courage, come into play?
Aren't those who survive the passage duty-bound to help others since they are already comfortably ensconced in a "life in paradise" in Europe?
I have been aware of these stories for the last 12 years and given the fates of those brothers and sisters, both here and there, much thought.
My performance is a one-woman-show, a tribute both to Lampedusa and to all refugees, all over the world. It is also an accusation aimed at those who have lacked the courage to help refugees. Above all, to each of those souls and their individual stories. A Performance by Yergalem Taffere
