27.March 2025 – 06.April 2025
Krass Festival: Humor as Resistance
Crisis, crises, polycrises: Conflicts, fronts, hatred and hardly any shared values; silent accusations and loud recriminations; harsh language against the left, against the right, against people of other origins. Social disorientation is followed by a polarisation of sides and opposing sides. The KRASS Festival takes the crisis as inspiration, opens up spaces for dialogue and resonance and looks for artistic survival tools to change perspectives and question one’s own attitude. This year, KRASS is using humour as a strategy of resistance.
In the first week at Kampnagel, Mila Panić curates a two-day stand-up comedy summit with the best underground comedians from around the world. In the second week of the festival, KRASS leaves the comfort zone of the theatre and moves into the open space of the city, with the new festival centre on the third floor of the Jupiter building, in order to take the themes out into the world, put them up for discussion and put them to the test. What makes the pulse of a city tick? How does urban space respond to art? Also on board: hip-hop dancers, parcour runners and St. Pauli’s Romnja theatre group Romplay.
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- On WED 02.04. / 19:00 Aladin El-Mafaalani will read from his new book “Kinder-Minderheit ohne Schutz” at the Stadtteilschule Altona.
- The KRASS CITY RAW CYPHER DAYS will take place at JUPITER on SAT 05.04. + SUN 06.04. / 12:00 - 20:00 with hip hop workshops, panels and cypher.
- WED 02.04. - SUN 06.04. / 19:00 there will be an interactive city conquest by Branko Šimić and Mona Farivar with KRASS CITY RAW.
- FRI 04.04. + SAT 05.04. / 18:00 SLIDERS /Romplay Theater Ensemble present SCHLEIFEN, KNOTEN, ZÖPFE.
Funded by the Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Building, the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media and the Hidden Potentials of the City Center program of the Ministry of Urban Development & Housing & City Center Coordination.