Basecamp TR // EN

A project by fringe ensemble with Two Two Production Istanbul
by Sami Özbudak and Frank Heuel

Basecamp TR // DE _ I // Istanbul

Starring: Batuhan Gelener, Kutay Kunt, Mehmet Aygüzel, Adnan Devran, Tuğçe şahin, Selin Kavak, Hivda Zizan Alp, Eren Giğdem, Tara Haçikoğlu
Director: Frank Heuel
Authors: Sami Özbudak, Lothar Kittstein
Stage and video: Annika Ley
Assistant director: Tara Haçikoğlu
Assistant: Aytuğ Erdil

February 02 and 03, 2018, Hotel Armada, Istanbul/Sultanahmet

Basecamp TR // DE _ II // Bonn
With: Sina Große-Beck, Lena Ehmer, David Fischer, Ceyda Goenen, Selin Kavak, Andreas Meidinger, Laila Nielsen, Asya Pritchard
Director: Frank Heuel
Authors: Sami Özbudak, Lothar Kittstein
Music: Ömer Sarıgedik
Stage and video: Annika Ley

09. and March 10, Hansa Haus, Bonn/Bad Godesberg

Basecamp TR / DE _ III // Istanbul

Starring: Batuhan Gelener, Kutay Kunt, Mehmet Aygüzel, Adnan Devran, Tuğçe Sahin, Selin Kavak, Hivda Zizan Alp, Eren Giğdem, Tara Haçikoğlu, Asya Pritchard, David Fischer, Selin Kavak
Director: Frank Heuel
Authors: Sami Özbudak, Lothar Kittstein
Stage and video: Annika Ley
Assistant director: Tara Haçikoğlu
Assistant: Aytuğ Erdil

10. and November 11, 2018, Tophane Club, Istanbul

Basecamp TR//DE examines the mutual relationship between Turkey and Germany in a multi-part theatrical project in Istanbul and Bonn.

The teams of German and Turkish theater professionals worked together in different constellations in Istanbul and in Bonn. Following the maxim “Start with clichés and you won’t end up in clichés,” the first step was to expose prejudices and stereotypes and then overcome them in direct encounters.

In the first two parts of the project, the actors from Istanbul and Cologne/Bonn went in search of people here and there who revealed their view of each other. A Turkish and a German author worked with these texts and engaged in a kind of writing dialogue in the performances – live, each in their own language, with a translator between them.

The ensemble in Istanbul, as in Bonn, included young acting students and graduates, in order to capture the young, forward-looking gaze, not already shaped/distorted by many experiences.

The first base camp in Istanbul offered a kind of selective stocktaking of the Turkish view of Germany. In the second part, which took place in Bonn, we reversed the perspective and asked the question about the relationship between Germans and the Turkish/German-Turkish community in Bonn.

The third part of the project built on the results of the first two project phases and led to a new research question.