Kollektiv storytelling engines: Auf allen vieren - Szenische Lesung

Description

What if the end is the beginning? What if the second half of life is very different from what we think? A woman disappears from her life and marriage – not quietly, not orderly, but "Auf allen vieren" (KiWi, 2024, translated from English by Stefanie Jacobs). Her journey through the USA begins as a road movie, but then leads straight into the female heart of darkness: menopause. She deviates from the path, lands in a motel room, and recreates herself there: dreaming, in pain, and with profoundly shocking desire. After its spectacular comic readings from "Im Spiegelsaal" and "Ich fühl’s nicht," the feminist artist collective storytelling engines again brings Miranda July's celebrated prose to the stage and tells of a woman who stops functioning – and thus begins to live.
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Photo: © Wirth/Bartdorff/Biallowons *Content Note: Sexually explicit descriptions are made at the linguistic level. Performance: Isabella Bartdorff, Tjadke Biallowons, Lucy Wirth
Outside Eye: Tom Schneider
Set design: Christina Berger
Organizer: storytelling engines
Funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Freiburg and the LaFT Baden-Württemberg
Date: 10.12.2026, 7:30 PM
Location: Literaturhaus Freiburg, Bertoldstraße 17
Performances: 9th, 10th, 11th December 2026, 7:30 PM
Admission: 17/13 euros
Guest performance
Literaturhaus

Highlights

• Scenic reading by Miranda July
• Performances on December 9, 10, and 11, 2026
• Admission: 17/13 euros

General Information

The scenic reading "Auf allen vieren" takes place at Literaturhaus Freiburg and addresses the challenges of a woman's second half of life. The feminist artist collective storytelling engines brings Miranda July's prose to the stage and offers an intense engagement with female life.

Location

Bertoldstraße 17, 79098 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

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