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Hundert Jahre weinen oder
Hundert Bomben werfen

Hundert Jahre weinen oder hundert Bomben werfen (One Hundred Years of Crying or throwing a Hundred Bombs) is a play based on conversations between the author and a former Foreign Legionnaire. All the characters and actions are based on real people and events. At the beginning of the 1960s, tens of thousands of German speaking volunteers met in Sidi Bel Abbess, the ‘cradle of the legion’ in Algeria, and were trained as soldiers. Together they sang French army songs - but also the songs of the German Wehrmacht. Many of the instructors were former SS. Crimes from the Second World War overlap with the ‘events’ of the Algerian War, victims from Mauthausen are suddenly confronted with their tormentors, now in different roles. The Legion promised the often still underage legionnaires, the so-called ‘cannon fodder’, cohesion and security, ‘solidarity’ and ‘equality’, as the Foreign Legion code put it. Under the pretence of comradeship and with the promise of a new identity, the young men commit war crimes, including against the civilian population.

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UA, Oktober 2019 Theater Basel, Regie: Franz-Xaver Mayr

Du Willkür, Du verlogener Berg, vermintes Seelenland Du. (Verminte Seelen)

The play ("You arbitrariness, you lying mountain, you mined land of souls" or "Mined souls") is based on the study of files and interviews with those affected who were committed to work education centres, penal institutions, reformatories or psychiatric wards in Switzerland until 1983 for ‘morally reprehensible behaviour’. Officials used arbitrary standards to decide who should be ‘re-educated’. More than a hundred thousand people were affected. The ‘care’ was only directed at those affected by poverty and other marginalised groups, such as single women, homosexuals, orphans and the paperless. The author tells the story of individual characters whose lives repeatedly intersect.

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UA, Mai 2019 Theater St. Gallen, Regie Barbara Brüesch

Nirgends in Friede. Antigone.

"Nowhere in peace. Antigone": Today's Antigone is no longer one individual, there are many of them, they are connected and act together. In Stocker's rewriting of Sophocles' original, there are three of them, who are differently privileged and act from different perspectives. Like the ancient Antigone, they ask themselves which life is mourned (cf. Butler), who deserves a funeral and who is at the mercy of nothing more than bare survival during their lifetime. The play was written under the impression of the Arab Spring and the beginning of civilian-organised sea rescue on the Mediterranean. At a time when new protest movements were also emerging in parts of Europe and the question of a global definition of democracy was being asked anew. Ancient Thebes becomes Fortress Europe, the war raging outside the walls is to be understood as a symbol of the battle that is being waged on Europe's external borders. Why is the construction of enemy stereotypes still a fundamental constant of political action? the author asks and, in contrast, creates the image of a generation that believes in solidarity and universal humanism and is pushing towards revolt.

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UA Dez 2015 Theater Basel, Regie Felicitas Brucker, further shows in Vienna and Ciudad de Mexico, 2017.

more plays

Die Vögel sind weg (Kurzstück) UA Juni 2015 Stadttheater Bremerhaven Precious (Kurzstück) UA im Mai 2014 am Schauspielhaus Zürich im Rahmen des Transit Festivals. Regie: Kamila Politovska Take care comrade (Kurzstück) Performance am 17.02.2014 am Theater Freiburg im Breisgau im Rahmen des Art Affects Festivals. Regie: D.Stocker Reicht es nicht zu sagen ich will leben (Co-Autorenschaft mit Claudia Grehn) UA: 30.06.2011, eine Koproduktion des Deutschen Nationaltheaters Weimar mit dem Schauspiel Leipzig, Regie: Nora Schlocker https://nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5854:reicht-es-nicht-zu-sagen-ich-will-leben-ua-nora-schlocker-verabschiedet-sich-mit-einer-fulminanten-inszenierung-aus-weimar&catid=82:nationaltheater-weimar&Itemid=100190 Zornig geboren UA: 03.06.2009, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin / Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen. Regie: Armin Petras. https://nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2909&Itemid=100190 Nachtblind UA: 18.03.2006, Theater an der Winkelwiese Zürich, Regie: Brigitta Soraperra https://www.nzz.ch/articleDOIQ4-ld.44535

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Scene from "Hundert Jahre weinen oder hundert Jahre Bomben werfen".

essays

- „Detox deine Weiblichkeit“, Böll Stiftung, Monkeybar Basel, 2019 https://theartofintervention.wordpress.com/2019/10/29/detox-deine-weiblichkeit/ -„Die Armen stehen jetzt zuvorderst“ Über Kairo in der WOZ, Januar 2012 -„Winterreise nach Kairo“, Theater der Zeit, Januar 2012 https://www.woz.ch/1201/kairo-im-dezember/die-armen-stehen-nun-zuvorderst - Von Buchenwald nach Europa (Beitrag zum Buch) https://www.zvab.com/9783941830141/Buchenwald-Europa-Gespr%C3%A4che-ehemaligen-Buchenwald-H%C3%A4ftlingen-3941830147/plp

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Cover "Von Buchenwald nach Europa"

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