A Post-Migrant Theatre — by Dinçer Güçyeter, Hakan Savaş Mican and Shermin Langhoff

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 Berlin, 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 necessarily expanded, reflexive, and interdisciplinary, combining theatre, film, visual arts, and literature amongst other genres.

8PM-9PM: Shermin Langhoff, Artistic Director’s Talk on Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin, its repertoire, and the 7th Berliner Herbstsalon entitled ЯE:IMAGINE: THE RED HOUSE – Inventories / Interventions / Inventions.

Shermin Langhoff has been the Artistic Director of Maxim Gorki Theatre since 2013 and is the proud daughter of a female Gastarbeiter (guest worker) at Telefunken. Shermin’s artistic oeuvre focuses on the public political sphere, poetics, and personal narratives. ЯE:IMAGINE: THE RED HOUSE 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, plurality, and collective narratives.