Post Migrant Theatre

Post-migrant theatre is a contemporary artistic approach, coined by Shermin Langhoff, notably at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, a theatre founded by Shermin in 2008 with a focus on post-migrant cultural productions, and later at Maxim Gorki Theatre, where she has served as artistic director since 2013.

This artistic approach reimagines German society as pluralist, complex, and inextricably defined by the experience of migration. In particular, it moves beyond merely portraying migration, and instead focuses on the contradictory lived realities in a post-migrant society, tackling themes of racism, exclusion, and participation. It is thus nuanced and challenges conventional notions of home, identity, and integration. As an artistic approach, post-migrant theatre is expansive, reflexive, and interdisciplinary, combining theatre, film, visual arts, and literature amongst other genres.

Shermin Langhoff has been the Artistic Director of Maxim Gorki Theater since 2013. Shermin’s artistic oeuvre focuses on the public political sphere, poetics, and personal narratives. RE:IMAGINE reimagines theatre as a bold post-migrant space where diverse voices shape the cultural mainstream. Rooted in political engagement and aesthetic innovation, Shermin will share about her practice that transforms the German stage into a site of resistance, solidarities, plurality, and collective narratives. 

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A Post-Migrant Theatre: “Unser Deutschlandmärchen”(Our German Fairy Tale) — Writer’s Talk by Dinçer Güçyeter
May 2
A Post-Migrant Theatre: “Unser Deutschlandmärchen”(Our German Fairy Tale) — Writer’s Talk by Dinçer Güçyeter

In this Writer’s Talk, Dinçer reflects on the literary power to rewrite collective memory and reshape ideas on identity within a post-migrant society.

A Post-Migrant Theatre: “One Thousand Photographs of Mother” — Director’s Talk by Hakan Savaş Mican
May 2
A Post-Migrant Theatre: “One Thousand Photographs of Mother” — Director’s Talk by Hakan Savaş Mican

Writer, director and filmmaker Hakan Savaş Mican reflects on his oeuvre including his City Trilogy, by employing the lens of his mother to narrate intersectional stories of migration, labour, class, and memories. 

A Post-Migrant Theatre — Intendant’s Talk by Shermin Langhoff
May 2
A Post-Migrant Theatre — Intendant’s Talk by Shermin Langhoff

Shermin Langhoff, Artistic Director’s Talk on Maxim Gorki Theatre, its repertoire, and the 7th Berliner Herbstsalon entitled RE:IMAGINE – THE RED HOUSE (Inventories, Interventions, Inventions)