Monday, April 5, 2010
"We are sitting on the fence!"
You were born in Germany, speak perfect German and likes being on stage.
In their daily lives they are fighting against prejudice - or find that what they themselves have. These experiences processed young migrants in a play in Ehrenfeld. They write, dance, sing, film - like the Great.
The three girls know the subjects they write about: Ezgi (14), Turkish, Aysem (13) also Arbresha comes from Albania. Together they work (with the German Muriel, 15) in the Cologne Art Theater on their first play.
Aysem: "We are four responsible for the piece, with improvisation, we have developed the story." Ezgi said: "It is a question: What integration means for us?"
"We have written a play, thinking about foreigners in Germany, about the different religions, and he who has the prejudices," describes the approach Aysem.
"Scenes are presented in order to get a picture. Then you remember: the others are not bad, are unnecessary prejudices: man is man." Young people have researched on the Internet, they asked Muriel's grandparents, Ezgi has processed their own experiences, "are in Turkey to German, foreigners here. It is said an ever, one can not be both. One sits between the chairs. One should take the best of both. "
On 19 September is premiered in Cologne, theater artists. The project was initiated by Ilknur alkane from Veedel Ehrenfeld Management eV ".