Detransition, Baby (UA) (German / English)
Crowd Control (German / English)
Cy Linke hat den Chat verlassen (German)
Beschütz mich weiter als du schreiben kannst (German / English)
Future Nostalgia (English / German)
Sohn* werden (English / German)
Stierhunger (English / German)
Sex und Kartoffeln (English / German)
Dippel. Diagnose CIN III (English / German)
Stierhunger Boy* (English / German)
Foodporn (English / German)
FALLEN (durchgestrichen)
(English / German)
D.D. Rabbit (English / German)
An Bas Jan Ader (English / German)
On Friendship (English / German)
52 HERTZ (English / German)
Schatten (Eurydike sagt) (English / German)
Familienfest oder wie man einen Goldfisch schluckt (English / German)
Sterben Üben (English / German)
Von der Schlucht (English / German)
Kollektiv Kunterbunt (English / German)
Schorf (English / German)
uniform (English / German)
Am Abend ist Maidan ein lautes Wort (English / German)
out of season (English / German)
Portraits (English / German)
Neighbourhood Game (English / German)
Neujahrsspiel (English / German)
Play, with Food (English / German)
Escape Room (English / German)
Intimite Talks (English / German)
Dropbox (English / German)
Foto von Gedvilė Tamošiūnaitė
To prepare for protests, unrest and riots, riot police forces around the world stage elaborate scripted simulations of exactly such scenarios.
In these exercises, not only do uniformed officers in balaclavas, helmets and body armor take part, but also fellow officers – under the direction of training instructors – perform the roles of protesters. They chant political slogans, insult their colleagues, attack them with mock projectiles, and wear the insignia of political subcultures – only to become targets of police interventions themselves. This is a form of genuine police theater, designed to make tangible the state’s logic of rendering spaces and people legible and governable in the name of public security.
In CROWD CONTROL, seven performers transpose these police tactics and practices – normally classified as “confidential” – into the black box of the theater: a deliberately ambiguous simulation setting where the boundaries between the logic of theater and the logic of policing begin to blur.
With: Lara Maria Humm, Jan Jaroszek, Toni Jessen, Wael Kreiker, Leonie Krieg, Cy Linke, Lukas Lüdeking
Concept, research, text, set design, direction: Oliver Zahn
Dramaturgy: Felizitas Stilleke
Technical design, lighting: Dennis Dita Kopp
Artistic production management: Martina Neu
Press and public relations: Kerstin Böttcher
A production by Oliver Zahn in co-production with Sophiensæle and HochX. Supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Co-financing Fund Berlin, the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and the City of Munich – Department of Culture. Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.
Dates:
20.09.2025
Crowd Control
HochX
München
19.09.2025
Crowd Control
HochX
München
Cy Linke 2025
Author, Director, Performer, Bodyworker
Author, Director, Performer, Bodyworker