Manchmal da träumt man, man sei ein Engel und fliegt davon. Dann kehrt man zurück, mit gebrochenen Flügeln und niemand hat bemerkt, daß man überhaupt weg war.

Bremen, Texas is a hybrid of many different worlds. A co-production between artists from PUSH PUSH THEATER in Atlanta and Berlin’s BALLHAUS OST, we have built a play that takes place simultaneously in the world of Gesche Gottfried’s 1800s, Fassbinder’s 1970s, 2010 Atlanta, 2010 Berlin—all synthesized into a mythologized Texas town full of cowboys, tequila, and misogyny.
The plot comes from the true story of Gesche Margarethe Gottfried, the last person to be publicly executed in Bremen, Germany in 1831. Known as the “Angel of Bremen” because of the sympathy she elicited from her community by taking care of the sick loved ones whom it turns out she had been poisoning with arsenic (oh snap!).
Fassbinder jumbles up the historical order of Gesche’s murders, highlighting a pattern of social repression that leaves little room for the ideals of love and self-realization. Gesche’s fight for personal freedom results in the death of nearly everybody she interacts with. Is there any sympathy to be found in Gesche Gottfried? Her anti-conformist attitude is laudable, but it sure fucks things up for the good people of Bremen.

in englischer Sprache / Performance in English

mit CLAIRE CHRISTIE, GEORGE FAUGHNAN, EVAN FILLON, TIM HABEGER, TARA OCHS, MATT STANTON

Regie UWE MORITZ EICHLER, NICOLA AHR Bühne UWE MORITZ EICHLER Kostüme NICOLA AHR Ton SEBASTIAN SCHELLHARDT Licht VOLKER SCHMIDT, KATHARINA ADLER

EINE PRODUKTION DES PUSH PUSH THEATER ATLANTA IN KOOPERATION MIT DEM BALLHAUS OST

BERLINPREMIERE 18. MÄRZ
WEITERE VORSTELLUNGEN
19. / 20. / 21. MÄRZ