Mädchenorchester

The music fulfills functions: It is an expression of the power of the National Socialists, it coordinates and rhythms work, it calms and torments, it serves to entertain and relax the SS officers. The women have to function, they play for their own lives.

If we don't play well, we will go into the gas.

The contemporary music theater of the spreeagenten is dedicated to the memories of contemporary witnesses who were members of the women's orchestra of Auschwitz. A cross-border dialogue is created between text and music; classical repertoire and electronic new composition; between past and present; contemporary witnesses, ensemble and audience on the questions »How can one survive?« and »What does my art mean to me?«

We were shaking and crying, tears were running down our faces. You couldn't help the people, you knew they were going to the gas and you had to stand there and play.

A group of young performers and orchestra musicians form the ensemble together with professionals from the fields of acting and singing. They become the sounding body of the musicians' memories of Auschwitz and their individual personal and artistic processing beyond the end of the Second World War.

You can't pollute music. Music is untouchable, that is the wonderful thing, that is the power of music.

A production of spreeagenten in cooperation with the Ernst-Haeckel-Schule Berlin-Hellersdorf, the Youth Orchestra of the Schostakowitsch-Musikschule Berlin-Lichtenberg, the Jugendkammerorchester Berlin e.V., TATWERK | Performative Forschung and the Heimathafen Neukölln.
Supported by the HAUPTSTADTKULTURFONDS and with funds from the Berlin Project Fund for Cultural Education.
We would like to thank the "Verein der Bundestagsfraktion DIE LINKE e.V." for financial support, the State Museum and Memorial Auschwitz-Birkenau and Theaterhaus Mitte.

Media partner is taz. die tageszeitung.

Reopening:
A production of the spreeagenten in cooperation with the Ernst-Haeckel- Schule Berlin-Hellersdorf, the Otto-Nagel-Gymnasium Berlin-Biesdorf, the JungenKammerEnsemble der Schostakowitsch-Musikschule Berlin- Lichtenberg, the Jugendkammerorchester Berlin e. V., TATWERK | Performative Forschung and the Theater im Delphi.
Funded within the framework of the re-recording support of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
With the kind support of Theaterhaus Mitte and Noisy Store.
Media partner is taz. die tageszeitung.