Thursday, 2/5/2026
at 8:00 PM



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Celle, 1984: The economy is faltering, jobs are disappearing. Many Germans see only one way out: emigration. To the economically flourishing East Turkey, to Batman. In the isolation of Anatolia, they hope to find their luck as guest workers – on construction sites, in workshops, in the daily life of a foreign world. What if history could be reversed? If Germans had to leave to find protection and work far from their homeland? If Germans in Batman had experienced being “the foreigners” – without a language course, without connections, relying on the patience of a society that wonders a little: Who are these people with the sauerkraut? – BATMAN is a fictional but profound narrative about perspective shifts and the hope for a better life. At the center is Jörg P., who finds work as a hairdresser in Batman. Between the bazaar and the barbershop, he navigates through language barriers, culture shocks, and tea houses without asparagus and Stracke. But there is music – and people who grow closer to each other. Inspired by the true biographies of Kurdish families from Celle and accompanied by songs from well-known Kurdish artists, the theater evening brings the cultures together in HALLE 19. It features a poetic interplay about leaving and arriving, about home and belonging.

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