A docufictional journey through time · World premiere
Summer 1989 in East Berlin. A country is falling apart: More and more people are fleeing to the West, protests are growing louder—some are afraid, others are fighting for change.
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Theater an der Parkaue
Meanwhile, the young radio producers Mina, Leo, Toni, and Johannes are putting together a program for the GDR’s youth station. They’re expected to act as if everything is business as usual. But how is that supposed to work? The tension is at breaking point.
Mina picks fights with everyone, Leo is arrested, Toni supports a resolution—only Johannes keeps quiet. – And then the unthinkable happens: The Wall falls, and new possibilities open up.
Finally, they can do radio the way they’ve always wanted to: talk openly about topics that were previously taboo, play the music they’re into, and shape the station themselves.
Author Marion Brasch, who was herself a host at the only East German youth station, DT64, at the time, tells the story of real events through fictional characters.
It’s about a unique moment of freedom and how a radio station became a way of life for young people.
Director Alexander Riemenschneider and his ensemble bring the radio studio to life, using the stage—and other spaces within the theater—to do so.
With documentary video footage and plenty of music, they take you back to this time of upheaval, when every day the question was: conform or break away?
Supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion
