Goldstück@Hans Peter Müller
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Goldstück
Theaterkollektiv Pièrre.Vers
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7.00 pm
from 6.30 pm
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A woman tries to break out of the cycle of domestic violence and financial dependency, confronted daily with bureaucratic hurdles and a lack of help. Her growing child turns to right-wing ideologies and becomes radicalised online. Despite all resistance, the woman tries to fight her way out of isolation, constantly accompanied by an inactive chorus that alternates between exhaustion, indifference and contempt and is difficult to counter in its inert mass.
The new production by the theatre collective Pièrre.Vers led by director Christof Seeger-Zurmühlen celebrated its world premiere in Chemnitz in June as part of the European Capital of Culture 2025 programme and was shown immediately afterwards at asphalt. “Goldstück” focuses on the threatening development that right-wing actors and parties are trying to roll back democratic and liberal achievements and utilise anti-feminist and anti-gender narratives in the process. How to counter this? Telling one’s own story seems to be a way out: according to the feminist US author Rebecca Solnit, those who make it visible cannot disappear. In her essay “Recollections of my Non-Existence”, published in 2020, she writes that this is “rebellion. A resurgence, a seizure of power”. “Goldstück” outlines a way to expand the chorus of humanity again.
Following its successful four-part cycle “Historification” and its examination of Nazi crimes in Düsseldorf, the Pièrre.Vers theatre collective’s latest productions deal artistically with events of right-wing violence and threats to democracy in Germany, for which it has received top funding from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, among others.
Author Verena Güntner, born in Ulm in 1978, played in the theatre for many years after studying acting. Her debut novel “Es bringen” was published in 2014. Her second novel “Power” was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2020 and awarded the Schubart Literature Prize in 2021. As part of the feminist literary collective LIQUID CENTER, Verena Güntner published the collective novel “Wir kommen” (We are coming) together with Elisabeth R. Hager and Julia Wolf in 2024. Güntner wrote “Goldstück” as a commissioned work for the Pièrre.Vers theatre collective; it is her debut as a playwright. Güntner lives with her family in Berlin.
Anna Magdalena Beetz, Julia Dillmann, Azizè Flittner, Paul Jumin Hoffmann, Alexander Steindorf, Sandra Zawada, Acting
Speaking chorus:
Antonía Annoussi, Claudia Fourmont, Dirk Rom, Ekaterina Ivanushkina, Finn Leon Çam, Inge Emi Berentsen, Jeannette Ostern, Julie Marienfeld, Sara Fasi, Silvia Göhring-Fleischhauer, Valerie Marschall
Christof Seeger-Zurmühlen, direction, concept
Susanne Hoffmann, space, costume
Bojan Vuletić, composition and sound design
Christof Seeger-Zurmühlen, Philippe Waldecker, lighting design
Katharina Rösch, dramaturgical consulting
Sandra Zawada, Benjamín Herrera, sound
Hans-Jürgen Müller, technical direction
Halgir Abdulkareem, technical assistance
Mika Ludwig, production assistance
Melissa Müller, production management
Marita Ingenhoven, press relations
Hannah Busch, social media
A production by theatre collective Pièrre.Vers in co-production with the asphalt Festival and the Düsseldorf Festival, supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of NRW, the Kunststiftung NRW, the City of Düsseldorf, Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf, BürgerStiftung Düsseldorf and Stiftung van Meeteren, in cooperation with Chemnitz – European Capital of Culture 2025 and Kosmos Festival
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