Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft

If I welcome a guest and offer them cake, I end up with less. But if I share thoughts with the guest, I end up with more. And what if I share a stage with the guest, what do I actually give away?

"Oh, a Visitor!" counts, distributes, gives and takes. It invites you to think of the stage space as a divisible place and to share the visibility of an evening with other artists, to pass it on, borrow it, give it away, take it and make it disappear.

In view of the fact that artists are facing an increasing scarcity of resources as money and stage spaces become increasingly scarce, Juliana Oliveira, Antje Pfundtner and Matthew Rogers invite other artists to share the stage with them and make visible both stage scenes that have become invisible and those that have not yet seen the spotlight. The trio calls out and welcomes the people who come in, along with their ideas: "Oh, a visitor, do you wanna come in?"

Six years ago, Antje Pfundtner began organizing artistic sharing formats in addition to her stage plays: Around the questions "How do you share ideas? How do you share money? How do you share the stage?", the TISCHGESELLSCHAFTEN have been exploring the sharing of resources ever since.

"Oh, a Visitor!" is the second piece by Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft that translates the sharing of visibility directly into a performance practice. "Oh, a Visitor!" is therefore not only a stage play, but also an invitation to many artists to share the stage before, during and after the performance.And so the artists Tanya Chizhikova, Hannah Kowalski, Israel Akpan Sunday and Mab Cardoso will each open one of the four performance evenings and show excerpts from existing or upcoming projects.

On the first evening (15.05.), choreographer Tanya Chizhikova, in dramaturgical collaboration with Anna Semenova-Ganz, will present an excerpt from her solo performance TUMBLEWEED, premiered in 2023, on the theme of being rooted.

On May 16, the artist Hannah Kowalski will present her concept of a children's election office in a lecture performance, which will open on the occasion of the next parliamentary and federal elections.

On May 17, choreographer Israel Akpan Sunday will show an excerpt from his research into the different cultural connotations of proverbs.

And finally, on May 18, choreographer Mab Cardoso will present a sketch from her current movement research and question her cultural and subjective dance vocabulary.

These are the first four visitors to "Oh, a Visitor!". During the performance itself, however, many more guests will join them:

Starting with the ukulele players from the Ukulele Hamburg e.V. association, who join in with a musical leitmotif of the piece, followed by the artists Dani Brown, Cornelia Dörr, Rike Jaglitz, Fabrice Mazliah, Sheena McGrandles and Rain Rose, who bring scenes from their stage works and use "Oh, a Visitor!" as an opportunity to make them visible again in a different context.

On the last evening (18.05.), the artists Josep Caballero García, Daniel Dominguez Teruel, Rike Jaglitz (for the collective Meine Damen und Herren) and Liz Rech will come together and close "Oh, a Visitor!" with an epilogue before inviting the audience to a get-together on stage together with Antje Pfundtner.

And now all that's missing are the audience guests: "Oh, a visitor, do you wanna come in?"

After the second, third and fourth performances, the entire team is on hand to share questions, feedback and thoughts on the play with the audience.