This play will help you better understand this topic: asylum in Germany. Director Michael Ruf interviewed with several refugees and asylum seekers in Germany, picked three and turned them into condensed monologues; the statements were left unchanged. The “Asyl-Monologe” retells the life of Ali from Togo, Felleke from Ethiopia and Safiye from Turkey, recited on stage by actors Björn von Welten, Abak Safaei-Rad and Asad Schwarz-Msesilamba. Although the topic of seeking asylum in Germany is present in the media right now thanks to the recent protests, it is these individual life stories that struck me, as I attended the play last night, with what it really means to seek asylum here. It also reveals that their misery doesn’t end in this country. Very moving and absolutely recommended.
Heimathafen Neukölln, Karl-Marx-Str.141, 12043 Berlin; map
Thu 29.12, Fri 30.12. & Sat 1.12.2012, 19.30h; discussion after the show
Text: Nina Trippel / Photo top: Martin Mascheski
Published in Cee Cee #85 on 29.11.2012
