Besser werden!

• Theatre

English below

Language: German

VENUE: THE EVENTS ON SEPTEMBER 26 AND 27 WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE RESONANZRAUM. ENTRY BEGINS HERE AT 7:00 PM.
The coaching scene is booming – at huge events or exclusive retreats, in online seminars, countless podcasts and thousands upon thousands of YouTube tutorials, we can learn how to become “the best version of ourselves” – namely the successful version.

With BETTER WERDEN!, Felix Stachelhaus and his team get to the bottom of the neoliberal promise of advancement, the obsessive obsession with self-optimization and the omnipresent performance imperative of affluent society. Five musicians from the Berlin new music ensemble LUX:NM, singer Lisa Florentine Schmalz and the a cappella choir DooDooBa! invite you to a unique consulting event. Set between motivational training, contemporary music theater and cabaret, BETTER WERDEN!, between absurd humor and deep seriousness, asks the question of what success really is, why we strive for constant improvement and what happiness actually means.
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English Version

The coaching industry is thriving – at huge events or exclusive retreats, in online seminars, countless podcasts and thousands of YouTube tutorials, we can learn to become “the best version of ourselves” – the successful version. With BETTER BE!, Felix Scheckhaus and team explore the neoliberal promise of social ascendancy, obsessive self-optimization and omnipresent performance pressure of an affluent society. Five musicians from Berlin new music ensemble LUX:NM, singer Lisa Florentine Schmalz and a cappella choir DooDooBa! invite you to a unique counseling event. Merging motivational training, contemporary musical theater and comedy, GET BETTER! moves between absurd humor and deep seriousness and poses the question of what success really is, why we strive for constant improvement and what happiness actually means.
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WITH
Lisa Florentine Schmalz (vocals, performance) / Ensemble LUX:NM: Silke Lange (accordion), Florian Juncker (trombone), Ruth Velten (saxophone), Rike Huy (trumpet), Zoé Cartier (cello), Martin Offik (sound director) / DooDooBa! A capella choir (director: Sophia Bös)

FROM
Concept, composition, direction: Felix Stachelhaus / Conceptual collaboration, dramaturgy: Frederike Prick-Hoffmann / Stage, video: Christopher Dippert / Costume: Hanne Lenze-Lauch, Johanna Winkler / Production management: Gregory Popov / Public relations: Hark Empen

Supported by the Hamburg Authority for Culture and Media, the Music Fund eV with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media, the Claussen-Simon Foundation, the Hamburg Cultural Foundation and the Ilse and Dr. Horst Rusch Foundation. Media partner: ByteFM.

The Berliner Ensemble LUX:NM is supported by the Senate Department for Culture, Berlin.