Ahmet Öğüt, founder of the Silent University, at Impulse Festival 2015;Photo (detail): Robin Junicke Dance and Theatre

Theatre and Refugees
Awakening silent knowledge

No cultural institution has currently engaged itself in helping refugees as intensely as has the German theatre. Alone the online portal nachtkritik.de compiled at the end of 2015 a list of some 80 initiatives. Yet refugees still appear only rarely as independent agents. The Silent University wants to change this. [more …]

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