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The Theme Nights
Thursday, November 2, 8 p.m.
Building Project Europe –Tigers Have to Stay Outside
The first "Europe night" in the schauspielfrankfurt stands behind the motto ”No one will be able to stop them!” Pavel Brăila and Mathias Greffrath have been put in charge of proceedings, of putting a stop to the tigers and lions. Springing out of Pavel Brăila’s videowork ”PLUSH WONDER,” the animals take aim at the European Central Bank, situated opposite the theater. The artist has collected soft toys from a tiny place on the rail line between Chişinău and Moscow: once the home to the large Soviet plush toy factories, today the mass production of the cuddly animals is a cottage industry. The toys are sold to passengers passing through on the train, and this regularly transforms the trains into crammed plush toy transports. Mathias Greffrath will respond to this change in working conditions with a reading on the theme of labor migration. But in this case, too, the artist and Moldovan Pavel Brăila will have the final word: for the finale and longest part of our theme night, "M & M" (Moldova and Mexico), he will bring along 10 musicians from Chişinău, specialists in wedding music. Their folkloristic music will face up to the artists and musicians of "Nuevos Ricos" from Mexico City. Two countries on the edge of Europe – or simply mere "third world" countries? Well, not exactly, rather an ironic proposal for inclusion and exclusion procedures, formulated – sorry, played – from the margins.
Friday, November 2, 8 p.m.
Building Project Europe –Tigers Have to Stay Outside
The second theme night in Frankfurt will focus on plans and facts. Under the title "Building Project Europe –Tigers Have to Stay Outside," a discussion will be held, featuring Gerald Knaus, a proven expert for the south-eastern region of Europe and the political scientist Elmar Altvater, who, as president of the German branch of Attac, has sharply criticized the planned European constitution.
The Film Series
Saturday, November 4
Strategies of Survival
In the German Film Museum in Frankfurt we shall present outstanding and award-winning films from the Sarajevo Film Festival in the presence of the directors as well as the producer Amra Bakšić-Čamo. The focus in Frankfurt is on contemporary film in Kosovo, where last year the first feature films since the war were produced.
