Branko Šimić / Martina Stoian / Nikola Durić

I AM A REFUGEE transforms KWISKOTHEKA into an artistic and political platform for refugees who have recently arrived here. Our guests are Syrian authors Assaf Alassaf and Aboud Saeed, who will read from their latest texts and discuss Germany with us. This interactive evening is the first step to entering into a dialogue with German society. On the one hand it’s about escape and arrival, on the other it is about questions posed by this new reality. Kampnagel will host encounters, for it’s about getting to know one another on equal terms. The hosts, interacting with the audience and the protagonists, are former refugees from I WAS A REFUGEE. They host on the command bridge of a quiz show. The order of events and the way they proceed will be decided by the participants live on the night.

Kwiskotheka 2016

In the 1970s, Yugoslavian cult series Kwiskotheka opened up a new kind of question and answer game. More than 40 years later, the TV studio has become a multi-functional installation, a recordable space that poses new questions. The KWISKOTHEKA 2016 is a host set, which takes migrants and their enemies as its topic, in the past, present and future. In the Kwiskotheka 2016, the director and curator of the Krass Festival, Branko Šimić focuses on constructing answers to questions from the refugees coming to Germany and their ideas for the country. Three different productions will be shown in this theatre studio.

part 1: How the smile was wiped off the face of Beate Zschäpe (25.-27.02.) part 2: I was a Refugee (03.-04.03.) part 3: I am a Refugee (05.-06.03.)