After a break of almost three years due to corona, aufBruch is playing again for the first time in the JVA Plötzensee - a drama by Albert Camus from 1949, which deals with the radical struggle for a just society.
A material with a concrete reference to the location of the event, because the former JVA Charlottenburg - today integrated into the JVA Plötzensee - was opened in 1985 as a specially secured women's prison, where RAF terrorists were also to be housed.

In 1905, a group of Russian social revolutionaries wants to kill the Grand Prince. They believe that if the representatives of the tsarist empire are killed, the people will rise up. The young poet Kalyayev is supposed to throw the bomb, but he hesitates when he sees children in the Grand Prince's carriage. The assassination attempt fails. This puts the group to the test.

Putting one's life on the line for the idea of a better world has become foreign to us today in the post-heroic age. Camus' drama illuminates the microcosm of a terror cell at the beginning of the 20th century and its self-image as avant-garde, for whom death in action or on the scaffold is part of it.

An aufBruch KUNST GEFÄNGNIS STADT production in cooperation with Plötzensee prison

Performed by the aufBruch prisoner ensemble in the JVA Plötzensee:
Frank, Lauan A., Maximilian Sonnenberg, Mohammad Hassan, Nehad Fandi, Sadam, Steffen, Steven Mädel.

Director Peter Atanassow Stage design Holger Syrbe Costume design Haemin Jung Dramaturgy Franziska Kuhn, Daniel Dumont Musical Coach Vsevolod Silkin Video Pascal Rehnolt Produktionmanager Sibylle Arndt Assistant director Caroline Zintz Graphic Design Dirk Trageser

Funded by a grant from the Senate Department for Justice, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination
Supported by the JVA Plötzensee, JVA Tegel, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz