program

The Düsseldorf housing market remains in crisis. Bündnis für bezahlbaren Wohnraum (Alliance for Affordable Housing) introduces their housing policy proposals on this evening. Its central demand lies in withdrawing housing from the free market. Tenants and all those interested are invited to join the discussion.

This imagery-laden theatre evening by Israeli clown Michal Sivroni tells the story of a family without goodbyes. Figures protrude from the canvas; memories are painted over and retold. A living play about origins, loss, and what we pass on.

half past selber schuld present the best films from the international 48 hours puppetry film project: Miniaturen am Limit – shot, edited and finished within two days.

Create your own puppet film! Emmy-nominated filmmaker, photographer, and puppeteer Alex U. Griffin will introduce you to this exciting art form in the workshop. Using analysis, camera exercises, and joint production, the fundamental elements of puppetry, image composition and planning will be conveyed, and you will shoot a short film together at the end.

Düsseldorf’s first puppet slam premiers! Puppeteers will present their acts, up to three minutes long, in this open-stage format. Hilarious or profound, always surprising. An energetic evening for adults in which the audience selects the winners.

Magic is in the air: In this workshop, half past selber schuld will unveil their hand-made live performance tricks. With shadows, precision, and vintage overhead projectors, participants will learn techniques that appear film-like yet are conjured up live on the spot.

It is a double-feature film and lecture evening: The Plastic Bag Store by Robin Frohardt is a celebrated puppetry film artwork, created from an immersive theatre project between rubbish, magic, and everyday fantasy. Following the film’s presentation, puppeteer Jamie Shannon will give a lecture about his puppetry work in film and TV spanning three decades

Puppetry theatre as a means for creative expression: In this workshop with Eduardo Felix, the participants will develop their own concepts and characters. Based on special manipulation techniques, personalities emerge from the interplay of movement, performer, and puppet.

half past selber schuld guide us through the Celluloid Golem Exhibition at Theatermuseum Düsseldorf that presents, alongside interactive half past selber schuld objects, puppets, works and work processes by additional puppetry artists.

Experience a curated programme from the best contemporary puppetry short films. The award-winning works present a variety of styles, techniques, and signatures – from stop motion to mixed media. A tribute to the creative potential in puppetry.

from 13 years

im Anschluss Publikumsgespräch

Hannah Arendt was a theoretician who kept thinking a lot. pulk fiction is interested in the inner workings of thinking. Retracing theoretician Hannah Arend’s way, performer Hanna Biedermann joyfully enters the wrong track.

from 13 years

im Anschluss Publikumsgespräch

Hannah Arendt was a theoretician who kept thinking a lot. pulk fiction is interested in the inner workings of thinking. Retracing theoretician Hannah Arend’s way, performer Hanna Biedermann joyfully enters the wrong track.

Philosopher Philipp Blom describes our present and its multiple crises as a time of upheaval in which we must critically scrutinise the erstwhile promises of unlimited growth and technological progress. How can we succeed in finding new joint goals and thereby making the simple answers given by the populists seem less seductive?

Which new spaces do digital and other contemporary media open for theatre? Students at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf present media experiments in table talks, showing how digitisation influences their work and decision-making processes as well as their artistic perspectives.

Quantum physics is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Sporting teleportation, Schrödinger’s cat as well as parallel dimensions, it keeps on providing ample material for science nerds as well as for science fiction. A brilliant resource for a new half past selber schuld stage comic strip!

Quantum physics is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Sporting teleportation, Schrödinger’s cat as well as parallel dimensions, it keeps on providing ample material for science nerds as well as for science fiction. A brilliant resource for a new half past selber schuld stage comic strip!

Kreidler come to the FFT for the release of their new album “Schemes”. The celebrated trio combines grooves, synthesizer and field recordings into soundscapes. Between ambient, electronica, and pop, tunes emerge that only really unfold as soon as they reach the stage – with precision, playfulness, and full of surprise turns.

With this collective happening on land and on water, the one-year research voyage of the Argonause comes to an end. On board: A project choir as well as Baro Gabbert from Greenpeace, spokesperson for ecological-social justice, and author Bernd Ulrich from DIE ZEIT. Collectively, we ask: How do we continue this journey?