Manifest(o)
2021
In a society that is changing so rapidly, that is as diverse as people can wish for, it may/will be necessary to invent new rituals and forget them, invent them, forget them…for our sake. 21 years after the murder of Enver Şimşek, the first in the NSU terror murder series, ten years after the so-called NSU became public, the background to the crimes and the radical right-wing involvement of the group deep into state structures have by no means been dealt with. On the contrary, right-wing radicalism, contempt and xenophobia are becoming increasingly entrenched in society. Marc Sinan’s polytopic oratorio MANİFEST(O) (Turkish for “Manifesto”) combines seven individual performances, performed at key locations of the acts of the so-called NSU, into a full-length work. MANİFEST(O) emerges from individual voices as a transnational oratorio with orchestra, choirs and soloists that connects history and places. Negative energies of the crimes are taken up, basic questions of retribution and new beginnings are discussed and processed in an ethical utopia. The oratorio MANİFEST(O) and seven individual performances, DIE ABWESENHEIT GOTTES / TANRI’NIN YOKLUĞU, BLINDE LIEBE / KÖR AŞK, DIE ANWESENHEIT DES MENSCHEN / İNSANIN VARLIĞI, DER ALTAR DER RACHE / İNTIKAM SUNAĞI, GLÜHENDER HASS / YANAN NEFRET, PARLAYAN NUR & DER CHOR DER VERGEBUNG / AFFETME KOROSU, always take place simultaneously at different locations in Germany and are digitally connected.
MANİFEST(O) was commissioned by Licht ins Dunkel e.V. as a contribution to the nationwide theater project Kein Schlussstrich!, in the context of which artistic and civil society interventions on the NSU complex will take place in 15 German cities from October 21 to November 7, 2021. The project aims to bring the perspectives of victims’ families and (post-)migrant communities into the public spotlight and create spaces for conversation about structural and everyday racism in our society. More information on the decentralized theater project Kein Schlussstrich! can be found at www.kein-schlussstrich.de Kein Schlussstrich! is funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation, the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth as part of the federal program “Demokratie leben!”, the Federal Agency for Civic Education, the City of Jena’s innovation funding, the State Chancellery of Thuringia, the Cultural Department of the City of Munich, the Cultural Division of the City of Nuremberg, the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media, the Ernst Abbe Foundation, the GLS Treuhand Dachstiftung für Individuelles Schenken, the State Agency for Civic Education of North Rhine-Westphalia, the City of Kassel, the Impulsregion Erfurt Weimar Jena, the initiative “The Power of the Arts” of Philip Morris GmbH, the Rudolf Augstein Foundation, Carl Zeiss AG, the Thuringian Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Nature Conservation, the Amadeu Antonio Foundation, the City of Cologne and the participating theaters and institutions as sponsors of the project.
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Main sponsor JenaKultur
Composition, musical & artistic direction Marc Sinan
Dramaturgy, libretto Holger Kuhla
Musical direction Simon Gaudenz DIE ABWESENHEIT GOTTES / TANRI’NIN YOKLUĞU
Organ BLINDE LIEBE / KÖR AŞK
Bağlama Derya Yıldırım
Percussion Greta Eacott
Sound design Tobias Levin THE PRESENCE OF HUMANITY / İNTİKAM SUNAĞI
Percussion performance Daniel Eichholz, Christian Kuzio & Rostock youths THE ALTAR OF REVENGE / İNTIKAM SUNAĞI
Performance Jelena Kuljić, Mateja Meded, Mirko Borscht, Volkan T error GLÜHENDER HASS / YANAN NEFRET
Clarinet Oğuz Büyükberber GLEISSENDES LICHT / PARLAYAN NUR
Piano Emre Elivar DER CHOR DER VERGEBUNG / AFFETME KOROSU Choirs from Dortmund, Cologne & Nuremberg MANİFEST(O) Fanny Sel Baute, Naz Yilmaz, Iva Bittová, Andreas Fischer, Katia Guedes, Meinrad Kneer, Johanna Krödel, Saša Mirković, Johanna Vargas, Jenaer Philharmonie, AuditivVokal Dresden, Knabenchor der Jenaer Philharmonie
Photos Dorit Gätjen, Candy Welz, Local International
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