Bruno Akkan
Louise Sophie Arnold
Luca-Noél Bock
Aicha-Maria Bracht
Joshua Dahmen
Sasha Hayes
Fritz Manhenke
Emmeline Puntsch

Nullerjahre

Jugend in blühenden Landschaften
By Hendrik Bolz
Studio Production 2024
Stage version by Marco Damghani

In his furious debut novel “Nullerjahre”, Hendrik Bolz describes a double culture shock: In his Berlin “exile”, his protagonist – or rather, his autobiographical first-person narrator – learned to stay away from the cultural codes of his youth; he has learned that a coat by Alpha Industries, combat boots and a propensity towards violence may have helped him find acceptance in his home town, but not in the world of college students. Here, social approval is won by different behaviour, and exclusion is much more subtle. A trip to see his old friends back home turns into another culture shock and triggers a rage of storytelling which relentlessly unfurls his own past in confrontation with his former self. Where exactly do we come from – and what is the point of being there? “There’s nothing nice, nothing beautiful here, it’s all fake, and it’s all a wind-up, a pile of shit painted in pretty colours.” His youth was shaped by drugs, violence, toxic masculinity, right-wing extremism and immense personal insecurity.

Before “Nullerjahre” was published, Hendrik Bolz had already directly and confidently expressed the experience of the generation who grew up after German reunification: As “Testo”, he belongs to the Berlin hip hop-duo Zugezogen Maskulin who anticipated the novel’s stories in tracks like “Plattenbau O.S.T.”.

Directed by Marco Damghani, “Nullerjahre” will be the point of departure for Schauspiel Leipzig’s analysis of experiences of social transformation, of being young in turbulent times. How can we relate to the stories Hendrik Bolz tells, what are ways of tracing back our own experiences as young people?

Marco Damghani was born in Hamburg in 1992 and studied directing at Berlin’s Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch as well as at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney. He works as an author, director and moderator, focussing on political issues, questions of (post-) migrant society and the connection between the personal and the systemic. The monodrama “Die Leiden des jungen Azzlack”, which he developed together with Eidin Jalali, received the 2022 German theatre prize DER FAUST in the category of “Best performer in theatre for young audiences”. “Anouk & Adofa” was invited to the 2023 Autor:innentheatertage at Deutsches Theater Berlin and is still part of Diskothek’s programme.
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Premiere on 01.03.2024
Diskothek

Dates

https://www.schauspiel-leipzig.de Schauspiel Leipzig Bosestraße 1, 04109 Leipzig
Fri, 06.12. 20:00 — 21:40
Diskothek
https://www.schauspiel-leipzig.de Schauspiel Leipzig Bosestraße 1, 04109 Leipzig
Sun, 22.12. 20:00 — 21:40
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https://www.schauspiel-leipzig.de Schauspiel Leipzig Bosestraße 1, 04109 Leipzig
Sun, 29.12. 20:00 — 21:40
Diskothek
iCal
Sold out
leftover tickets
at the boxoffice
Currently we cannot offer online tickets.
But there are possibly tickets available. Please try again later or contact our call center at 0341 / 12 68 168.
Possibly remaining tickets can be purchased at the box office.
https://www.schauspiel-leipzig.de Schauspiel Leipzig Bosestraße 1, 04109 Leipzig
Sat, 18.01. 20:00 — 21:40
Diskothek

Further dates in planning

Duration

ca. 1:40, no break

Cast

Bruno Akkan, Louise Sophie Arnold, Luca-Noél Bock, Aicha-Maria Bracht, Joshua Dahmen, Sasha Hayes, Fritz Manhenke, Emmeline Puntsch

Team

Director: Marco Damghani
Stage Design: Hugo Gretler
Costume Design: Ragna Hemmersbach
Choreographie: Mandy Unger
Dramaturgy: Georg Mellert
Sebastian Elster
Video: Gabriel Arnold
Heribert Weitz
Inspection: Jens Glanze
Speech training: Gilda Abbey, Nicola Theuer
Soufflage: Philine von Engelhardt
Assistant director: Emily Huber
Stage design assistance: Maryna Ianina
Costume assistance: Carolin Schmelz
Mask: Kerstin Wirrmann, Norbert Ballhaus, Anja Engert
Props: Thomas Weinhold
Stage manager: Mattheo Fehse
Director & dramaturgy internship: Hannah Schlecht
Stage & costume internship: Amelie Kahlo
Theatre pedagogy: Amelie Gohla

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