Untimely Topics of Contemporary Theatre
A six-part podcast by and with Peter Stamer & Guests
Guests & topics:
Episode 1: Lisa Lucassen, performer & member of She She Pop (BOREDOM), 2021
Episode 2: Eva Brunner, actress & director (APPLAUSE), 2021
Episode 3: Andreas Müller, dancer & performer (HUMOR), 2021
Episode 4: Christel Weiler, theater scholar (FAILURE), 2021
Episode 5: Sandra Umathum, performance scholar, author & dramaturge (COUGHING), 2023
Episode 6: Jule Flierl, dancer & choreographer (GHOSTS), 2024
During the pandemic, one couldn't entertain anyone at home for too long. This spell was to be broken with FALSCHER ABGANG (Wrong Exit): since summer 2021, Peter Stamer has invited six theater artists to his apartment for dinner at irregular intervals to talk to them about “Untimely Topics of Contemporary Theatre”.
Lisa Lucassen, performer and member of the performance collective She She Pop, came to Freiligrathstraße for a vegan breakfast in episode 1 and dealt with the topic of BOREDOM in a very entertaining way. For episode 2, Austrian director and actress Eva Brunner joined for lunch to talk about APPLAUSE and why we need it so much over Wiener schnitzel and parsley potatoes. A week later, Andreas Müller, dancer and performer, not only told jokes at the coffee & cake table for the third episode, but also sang melan-comical songs and let us in about his thoughts on HUMOR. In the fourth episode, over salmon and green asparagus, theater scholar Christel Weiler devoted herself to the many different manifestations of FAILURE on stage. Almost two years later, performance scholar, author and dramaturge Sandra Umathum sat over tea and Black Forest cake to take a look at COUGHING in the theater in episode 5. To conclude the podcast, dancer and choreographer Jule Flierl climbed the five floors to the studio in Kreuzberg shortly before midnight and took a look at the visibility and invisibility of GHOSTS over wine and wraps.
Duration: approx. 60 minutes per episode
Concept, direction & music: Peter Stamer | Sound design & sound mix: Andreas Hamza | Additional music in episode 6, GHOSTS: Jule Flierl & Irena Z. Tomažin
Co-production: Tanzfabrik Berlin in the frame of apap - FEMINIST FUTURES, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union