FatzerBraz by Bertolt Brecht&Co.

theatre performance

Desertion, revolutionary defeatism and guerrilla warfare are in the focus of the fragment “Fatzer” by Bertolt Brecht. A posse of four soldiers decide during the First World War “not to make war anymore” and hide in the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr to wait for an insurrection. But before a revolution against the war takes place, the group destroys itself. The situation underground resembles the fate of the urban guerrilla, whose “minimanual” was written by Carlos Marighella, a Brazilian member of congress who went into armed resistance against the military dictatorship. In the context of the student’s movement this “minimanual” also had consequences in West-Germany (RAF, movement 2nd of June).

These texts are the point of departure for “FatzerBraz”, the most recent production by andcompany&Co, the international artist’s collective centered around Alexander Karschnia, Nicola Nord and Sascha Sulimma will perform this play in Sao Paulo together with Brazilian artists. This collaboration offers the opportunity for a mutual alienation-effect: Sao Paulo and the region of Ruhr, the First World War and the urban guerrilla, revolutionary movement and reform government. On the basis of a strongly developed Brazilian Brecht-tradition new ways are searched for to “another”, tropicalized Brecht. The cultural and ideological “remix”, characteristic for the works of andcompany&Co., allows new forms of appropriation and incorporation, which have a long tradition in Brazil. At the end, Fatzer will be eaten…

 

 

FatzerBraz von Bertolt Brecht&Co. (SESC Sao Paulo 2010)

Cast

with Alexander Karschnia, Jan Brokof, Jorge Peña, Manuela Afonso, Mariana Senne, Nicola Nord, Paula Klein (Fernanda Azevedo), Sascha Sulimma&CO.

concept: andcompany&Co.
translation: Christine Röhrig
stage design: Jan Brokof, João Loureiro
production: Anne Schulz, Matthias Pees, Ricardo Muniz Fernandes
executive producer: Jussara Rahal
technical director: Julio Cesar Cesarini
assistance/subtitles: Annette Rammershoven
assistent director: Dagan Bayliss
Dramaturgical advise: Fernando Kinas, Hans-Thies Lehmann, Nehle Franke

A production by andcompany&Co., Goethe-institute São Paulo and interior Produções Artísticas Internacionais, in coproduction with the Serviço Social do Comércio de São Paulo (SESC SP), festival Internacional de Teatro de São José do Rio Preto-SP, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) as well as the series »Geschichten für das Neue Jahrhundert« (»Stories for the new century«) by FFT Düsseldorf, Pumpenhaus Münster and Ringlokschuppen Mülheim. The production is produced in the context of „Unter Menschenfresser Leuthen. Postkoloniale Perspektiven zeitgenössischen Theaters in 4 Kooperationsprojekten zwischen Theatermachern aus Deutschland und Brasilien“ („Among maneater-people. Postcolonial perspectives of contemporary theatre in 4 cooperationsprojects between theatre makers from Germany and Brazil“)

Supported by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes