fluctoplasma Festival – 2025
The Postcolonial Sauna. Despite initial attempts, Hamburg’s colonial history is far from being fully addressed. The traces of this era are deeply ingrained in the bodies and culture of Hamburg’s urban society and are still not sufficiently recognized or understood. Therefore, this year we are calling again: We call: DETOX your history! Detox body and mind – join the sauna! – a call for a complete detox in the SusiSauna, where your senses will be on overdrive. As you sweat, the words of Frantz Fanon pound in your head, the lines of Audre Lorde make every cell in your body tremble, and the writings of Max Czollek expel every last drop of colonial thinking from your pores. Detoxify yourself of colonial and racist thinking! Emerge from the sauna a new person – a clean bill of health awaits you at the exit. A testament to your attempted moral exoneration. So hurry up and pack your bathrobe!
The sauna is open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday during the festival – admission with a festival wristband or individual ticket at the box office, sweat included. Drinks are available by donation, including legendary DETOX DRINKS by Gülnihan Hasköy and Haress Ghafari / AMONIA FOOD, freshly mixed by the performative sauna master himself. Note: In addition to ginger and lemon, insights may also stimulate your circulation. Please read our awareness concept before inhaling – we detox in solidarity and together.
The sauna is part of the decentralized heimaten Festival at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin. We would like to thank the Association for Mobile Machinations for their cooperation and the Schrott bewahre e.V. and Mikropol e.V. for their support.
Opening hours:
Friday, 4 p.m.–9 p.m.
Saturday, 4 p.m.–9 p.m.
Sunday, 2 p.m.–7 p.m.
The sauna has space for 10 people at a time. Please allow for some waiting time; reading material and drinks will be available in the sauna garden.
Project management „Postcolonial Sauna“: Sina Schröppel, Marius Mandery
Sauna audio speakers: Claudiu Mark Draghici, Jan Katzenberger, Roxana Safarabadi
artwork by Janina Santamarina @ REMISE
2024 // REMISE – interdisciplinary lab for art and research is a temporary space for art and gathering. A temporary roof, a place for encounters, a studio for sharing. We are a collective of interdisciplinary artists, creatives, dramaturges, performers, curators and curious people from Hamburg and beyond. Our practices live through photography, art, performance and writing, through listening, learning, unlearning, questioning, not knowing and inventing. What unites us is the urge to share, explore and form communities that reflect the complexity of our present and that are constituted by the principle of care, diligence and concern.
We understand art as a tool, as a practice and as an exploration that enables us to deal with our different perceptions of the now.
Where spaces for joint experimentation are scarce, REMISE opens up with the aim of creating a temporary place for collaborative interdisciplinary practices, artistic negotiations and interdisciplinary unrest. A place where stories can be told, ideas explored and thoughts heard.
International Literaturfestival Berlin JIN JIYAN AZADI WOMAN LIFE FREEDOM – Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg // 2022
From the stage of the Deutsches SchauSpielHaus in Hamburg, the literary winds of revolution blow toward Tehran.
The International Literature Festival Berlin is calling for a worldwide reading in solidarity with the protests in Iran on December 10, Human Rights Day. To mark this occasion, the Central Committee is organizing the solidarity event „Frau Leben Freiheit“ (Woman, Life, Freedom) in cooperation with the Deutsches SchauSpielHaus, the Hamburg State Opera, Kampnagel, the Thalia Theater, the Ernst Deutsch Theater, the St. Pauli Theater, the Ohnsorg Theater, the Hamburger Kammerspiele, the Bücherhallen Hamburg, the Literaturhaus Hamburg, the Körber Foundation, the Kinderschutzbund Hamburg Regional Association, the Ensemble Resonanz, and others.
Moderated by Michel Abdollahi, actors, musicians, and authors will read Iranian literature as a declaration of solidarity with all those oppressed, abused, and tortured by the Iranian regime. Reading on this evening on the stage of the SchauSpielHaus or via video link will be (among others) the First Mayor of the City of Hamburg, Dr. Peter Tschentscher, the Senator for Culture of the City of Hamburg, Dr. Carsten Brosda, the German-Iranian writer and orientalist Navid Kermani, the Iranian-American actor and comedian Max Amini, the artistic directors of SchauSpielHaus, Kampnagel and Thalia Theater, Karin Beier, Amelie Deuflhard and Joachim Lux, Swantje Tessmann from the Ensemble Resonanz, from the SchauSpielHaus ensemble, among others Lina Beckmann, Ute Hannig, Maximilian Scheidt and Michael Weber as well as the actresses Neda Rahmanian, Karime Vakilzadeh and Roxana Safarabadi.
2022 // Curator of orbit.altona and a Videoinstallation at Galerie Melike Bilir IN SEARCH FOR PARADISE I انقلاب آزادی
2020-2022
DRAMA is a magazine for dramatic literature. Since the launch of our project in spring 2021, a network has formed around DRAMA, in which people engage in dialogue and promote the magazine. It was initiated by Swen Lasse Awe and Jonas Schönfeldt. The editorial teams meet anew for each issue. For DRAMA 1, these were Emel Aydoğdu, Elvin İlhan, Dorothea Lautenschläger, Saskia Nitsche, Roxana Safarabadi, and Hannah Stollmayer. Christopher-Fares Köhler and Mariann Yar join the team for DRAMA 2. DRAMA is designed by Emil Kowalczyk and Paulina Mohr.
ausgesprochen frei – theatre collective
ausgesprochen frei is a Hamburg-based collective of freelance artists which was founded in 2020 together with Kristina Nadj, Hannah Ehlers, Roxana Safarabadi and Catalina Suchomel. Since then, the team has been steadily expanding, including actress Nina Sarita Balthasar, musician Henrik Demcker, and graphic designer Sebastian Kowalczyk. We primarily focus on feminist issues and advocate for equality, freedom, and open exchange.
We are currently performing with our piece Inside Sybille, which explores female sexuality, body image, and self-determination.
2019-2023
Sexy Theater Menschen Authoritarianism and misanthropy threaten coexistence. Where does this anger come from? The theater group Sexy Theater Menschen searches academic works from sociology, philosophy, and history for a world in which people want to live together. Can we find a language that can counter xenophobia? Is there a way out of propaganda style and money-making? Will we defeat mega-anger?
Hate or love? Research at its limits.
2019-2023 // Hieb und Stichfest – Kampfschrei der Blaumeisen
100 years of women’s suffrage. We tell the story of Rosa Luxemburg, who is considered a symbol of freedom and equality in the fight for political justice. There are some parallels to today. The actresses take these up, try to create awareness of current issues and deal with the problems of our time. This includes, among other things, the #Metoo debate, feminism, gender and equality for all.
The theater evening consists of monologues, performances and letters from Rosa, which she wrote in captivity.