Everybody has a mother tongue. In Mother Tongue, performer Kathrin Knöpfle combines a participatory installation with live performances in five spaces of experience and with her team, presents themes like family influence, colonialism, racism and gender roles in an artistic arrangement in which audience members can move freely. Familiar stage situations are dissolved, offering space for personal reflection. Mother Tongue invites people with migration experience, feminist attitudes and an interest in social criticism, as well as anyone who wants to explore the phenomenon of ‘mother tongue’ in the ‘fatherland’, to engage in exchange.

Choreography & Artistic Direction: Kathrin Knöpfle
Concept & Installation: Clemens Collisi
Costume: Sheila Furlan
Material: treibgut
Collaboration & Execution: Julie Vormweg, Max Bienefeld
Outside Eye: Maria Berauer
Graphic, Photography: Martina Vordermayer
Camera, Projection: Rina Zimmering
Creative Producer: Rat & Tat Kulturbüro

Martina Vordermayer

Premiere:
2nd October 2025, ZIRKA

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