Marina Davydova

What does home mean when it is lost? And how does one’s own memory change through exile? In Charlottenburg, Russian theatre maker, critic, and historian Marina Davydova explores the trauma of exile and the illusion of a fixed concept of homeland. The central character encounters the «ghosts« of the past and the future. An intense journey through memory, loss, and the search for identity.

Charlottenburg is the third part of Davydova’s internationally acclaimed theatre trilogy, following Eternal Russia(Berlin, 2017) and Museum of Uncounted Voices (Wiener Festwochen, 2023). Like the previous works, the piece is rooted in the genre of the «performative museum«, a space where history, collective memory, and personal experiences meet.

As part of the NORDWIND Festival, Marina Davydova presents fragments of the text to a German audience for the first time. The premiere of Charlottenburg is scheduled for 2027 at Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin.

Marina Davydova is a theatre critic, historian, playwright, and producer. She studied theatre criticism at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS/RATI) and has worked as a researcher, lecturer, and author focusing on Russian and Western European theatre history.

She is the author of the monographs The End of Theatre Epoch and Culture ZERO, as well as editor of The History of West European Theatre since Renaissance Time until the End of the XIX Century. Davydova has worked as theatre critic for Izvestia, editor-in-chief of the magazine TEATR, artistic director of the Moscow NET Festival, and programme director of the Vienna Festival 2016. Her work has received numerous awards, including the Stanislavsky Prize for best book publication.