Hundertpro Festival

Diverse, multi-ethnic, and post-migratory: our society is undergoing constant change. We want to (re-)present this reality once again with the third edition of HundertPro Festival!

A great variety of arts - from contemporary dance, theatre and performance to new circus and physical theatre to comedy and stand-up - are represented on an equal footing.

In doing so, HUNDERTPRO deliberately focuses on post-migrant young artists and various groups selected from almost 100 applications from NRW and across Germany. Even if all the world's a stage, one often has to wonder whether the stage shows all the world. There are still far too few signs that we live in a diverse society.

What does time do to our dreams, needs, losses? Which chapters are new, rewritten, updated, which are deleted? “Come as you are # teil 2” [Come as you are # part 2] is the continuation of an ongoing research on the cultural adaptation of Syrian dancers in the German dance performance landscape, five years after their arrival. In personal monologues and solos, with a lot of improvisation, they shared their struggles, nightmares and fears, their feeling of alienation, their hopes and dreams. Can the dancers save the history that their bodies brought with them?

People of colour are confronted with innumerable barriers in life, be it the pay gap, racial profiling or police violence. However, the most treacherous barriers are those that remain invisible, that only become visible when experienced first-hand. These microaggressions are so destructive because the rest of the world doesn't seem to understand them, since they do not experience them themselves. Akasha Daley draws attention to this and addresses the struggle, the hopelessness and the strength of PoC in her performance, which combines physical theatre, video and lecture performance. Her passion for poetry is powerfully combined with her desire to make untold and unseen stories audible as performative inner monologues.

Amjad manages to present his personal experiences, which aren't all funny, with a lot of humour. The culture-themed entertainment sets range from the advantages of having falafel with sauerkraut as fast food, to bizarre weddings at which an ISIS supporter marries an Orthodox Christian. No matter what the culture is, everyone will find their place in Amjad's programme and rest assured, the comical mirror that Amjad holds up to us is big!

The German-Turkish director and performer Caner Akdeniz goes in search of his roots: He is looking for Siegfried, the legendary German hero - clever and terrifyingly blue-eyed, a role model, a freedom fighter, betrayed, lampooned, deconstructed. He drifts between types of media, between literary, iconographic and theatrical manifestations, and also addresses his own relationship to German society. Can he grasp and understand Germany? Will he succeed in reviving Siegfried as a role model? Can he become Siegfried? And does he want to?

“Where do you come from?” Emese was born in Budapest - but she speaks German without an accent.That wasn't always the case. It was at school that she changed her nickname for the first time when she realised how stupid her Hungarian nickname sounded spoken with an Austrian accent. As a teenager, she perfected her knowledge of the dialect, but at some point her resilience ran out.

THIRD CULTURE KID is about the conflict between two cultures, about the feeling of being lost and about the unpleasant urge to have to constantly adapt.

A physical theatre short film that playfully explores the speed of life. In our society, speed and efficiency are rewarded, slowness is punished. We are supposed to live according to the motto "Harder-better-faster-stronger!" Those who do not produce a lot quickly are "lazy". Paradoxically, the billionaire in early retirement is the top role model. The ironic message arises: "You have to hustle to be slow". The short film, which was filmed in quarantine during the corona lockdown, asks us: How (fast) do we live? What is our goal here?

How do women who don't follow the rules they were born into navigate the post-Spice Girls "you can do anything" era, where every mistake you make can be seen on Instagram by thousands of your peers?

THE CLITORIS ACT OR 2 CIS THIRTY-SOMETHINGS AND THEIR UNBEARABLE VIEWS ON THE DANGERS OF PATRIARCHY looks at the way women feel and are treated in today's world through the hilarious but brutally honest lens of comedy.

Mari Volar is an Estonian comedian, writer and musician. Anshita Koul is a software engineer from India who at some point became a comedian, tour guide and video content creator. Together they lead the Clit Comedy Club - the first English-speaking feminist comedy collective in Cologne. Their goal is to invite, inspire and encourage more women from all backgrounds to step into the often uninviting world of stand-up comedy.

The everyday struggle of a digitalised generation between philistines and smartphone: We don't watch TV anymore and haven't for a long time - we stream. And we get lonely in analogue despite digital dating. In the past, if you wanted to have sex, you had to write at least one SMS with 160 characters. Today, you send an eggplant emoji. When Serkan sorts through the mess of his time, shame and guilt are his compass needles. His whole passion for the stage is unleashed in his first solo programme. By Serkan's beard: It'll be great! Serkan's distinctive moustache gives the show its name: The Schnörres is real!

Tutty Tran, the Vietnamese with the Berliner attitude, presents his very first solo programme "Augen zu und durch" [close your eyes and hope for the best]! Even as a child, Tutty regularly experienced racism and discrimination. Back then, as he himself says, he was a "broken little grain of rice". Today he can expertly deal with it and brings his deep-seated pain to the stages of Germany with a lot of sarcasm.

After a global collapse, the world is entering a new phase. The age of the Anthropocene is a thing of the past, the predicted ecological crisis has occurred. Some people survived the disaster. They can use their bodies as a medium to trace the attitudes and feelings of others and thus recount the last days of the old, lost world. Can this empathetic feeling, the complete "togetherness" with others, lead to a better society, to a utopia?

"Doch" is not just Antonina Koluiartseva's favorite word in the German language. It is also the name of the piece that the choreographer developed with dancers of the FTS. The word - which mostly comes to life as an impulsive outburst - means "yes" and "no" at the same time, signals demarcation and at the same time rushes forward. Her piece, too, is filled with moments that have arisen through the mixing of contradictions. A field full of situations, images and memories that dance around.