On November 19 at 16:30, The Freedom Theatre will host the Folkwang University of Arts – Berlin with the performance Welt in Brand (The World on Fire) – a dramatic collage about World War I.
Welt in Brand is a collage, combining contemporary texts and music from the days of the First World War which broke out in Europe one hundred years ago. The trauma of this war in all its terrible facets has been reflected by writers and artists of all affected countries and languages. The performance of Folkwang University of Arts, cooperation partner of the Drama Academy Ramallah, deals with texts, poems and songs written by famous authors e.g. Erich Maria Remarque, Robert Musil, Stefan Zweig, Boris Pasternak, T.E.Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos und Robert Rolland.
Compiled by Gerold Theobalt
Music: Thomas Hufschmidt
Directed by Johannes Klaus / Adolf Winkelmann
Stage and costumes: Birgitta Weiss
Actors and musicians are students from Folkwang University of Arts / Germany 18 persons (director, stage designer, project manager and 15 students)
Performed in German with Arabic subtitles.