WIR BLEIBEN WIR: Ada und Ben

The premiere reading by Thekla Wilkening opens an evening that productively interweaves literature and physicality and brings the new novel "Wir bleiben wir: Ada and Ben" in close proximity to the dance floor. The characters in the novel move along existential questions: Franca feels her way through the ambivalences of a love that demands self-assertion, while Isi and Chris try to assert self-determination in their shared flat against the impositions of an accelerated everyday life. As young parents, Ada and Ben wrestle with a system that places success above care and whose mechanisms of money, power and expectations are deeply inscribed in their life plans. An unexpected event topples fragile certainties and forces everyone involved to reassess the question of integrity and identity. The interplay between the reading and the subsequent after-show party creates a resonance space in which the utopian sparks of the text - vulnerable but persistent - resonate and outline an alternative to populist constrictions. The Tsunami Club offers a framework that brings together proximity, discourse and sensual experience.