"Die Klima-Monologe" von Michael Ruf
Droughts, floods, storms. Uninhabitable zones and struggles for distribution are spreading. The window of time left for action is getting smaller and smaller. The Klima-Monologe tell the global struggles of various people against climate change. They provide insight into how people in different regions of the world specifically feel the effects of climate change in their own biographies.
The Klima-Monologe tell of a family's survival in Bangladesh after Cyclone Aila, of a pastoralist's fight against hunger due to drought in northern Kenya, of a climate activist from Pakistan whose own village at the foot of a glacier was flooded, and of a nurse who narrowly escaped the deadliest wildfire in California's history.
The protagonists must repeatedly make existential decisions: between staying home or leaving, between crop failures in the countryside or living as a day laborer in the city, between security and identity, between hunger and risk.
The Klima-Monologe are documentary theater. Michael Ruf conducts interviews that last several hours, sometimes several days. These interviews are then merely shortened and condensed. Nothing is invented, and the linguistic expression is retained. Word-for-word, human-centered theater.
Directed by MICHAEL RUF
Introduction at 19:15
Following this, there will be a discussion with guests Paulo Cesar dos Santos Conceição and Tarek Luft.
Photo: Verena Eidel
Introduction at 19:15 | Discussion afterward
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