Per°Form Open Academy Opening – Exhibition: Stresemannstrasse 30 – An Inventory
After the signing of the recruitment agreement between Germany and Turkey in 1961, a women’s hostel belonging to Telefunken, a technology company, located at Stresemannstrasse 30, became a first home in Berlin for many Turkish women – in a building that had, over a hundred years earlier, served as an educational institution for boys including German statesman Otto von Bismarck.
Per°Form Open Academy Exhibition with Supper Gathering
Making its premiere in Singapore, this exhibition follows the footsteps of these women migrant workers. Their stories about life, love, work, and resistance are accompanied by an intersection of programmes that builds a bridge to the present day.
Literary Salon: The Bridge of The Golden Horn — by Emine Sevgi Özdamar, performed by Tan Kheng Hua
This literary salon will feature a reading of Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s autobiographical coming-of-age novel “The Bridge of the Golden Horn” by acclaimed Singaporean actress Tan Kheng Hua, with a post-show dialogue by Shermin Langhoff.
Theatre – Lecture Performance: Unser Deutschlandmärchen (Our German Fairy Tale) — by Sesede Terziyan
Unser Deutschlandmärchen (Our German Fairy Tale) brings Dinçer Güçyeter's celebrated debut novel, winner of the 2023 Leipzig Book Fair Prize, to the stage as a lecture performance by Sesede Terziyan
PerºFormer Workshop — by Sesede Terziyan
Led by Actress Sesede Terziyan, this workshop is for performers and activators looking to use theatre and performance as strategies for transformation, agency and emancipation. Sesede will draw from her past roles in Gorki productions such as Unser Deutschlandmärchen (Our German Fairy Tale)
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
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 — Artistic Director’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)