Documentary site-specific theatre with large objects and in goods wagons in German and Polish
Premiere: 15 June 2016
Director: Jens- Erwin Siemssen
The Second World War drove millions of people from their homeland. Das letzte Kleinod went to search for a trace through Europe and asked older people from Russia, Poland and Germany how they had escaped as a child. From the descriptions, a theatrical performance was made, which was performed in four old goods wagons, and took the railway to ten stations in Poland and Germany. Ucieczka-Flucht was sponsored by the Federal Government for Culture and Media, the German-Polish Cooperation Foundation, the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, the Lower Saxony State Chancellery, the Lower Saxony Foundation, City of Gdynia, City of Poznan, Regional Center Kultury w Pile, Landschaftsverband Stade, Landkreis Cuxhaven, City of Lüneburg, Municipality of Schiffdorf and the Weser-Elbe Sparkasse. With kind support from the Ostptreußische Landesmuseum Lüneburg. In co-production with the Kleist Forum Frankfurt / Oder. The project was funded by “Scene Change”, a program of the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the International Theater Institute. More than 2000 spectators in Poland and Germany have seen “Ucieczka-Flucht”.
