Program
Viewers can witness multiple monologues and specials directly one after another and have fantastical experiences in a space from another time – we recommend one of the limited day tickets for your live visit.
Selected evenings will also be broadcast via a live stream – with special surprises in between events.
The program schedule of the entire festival is available for download here:
Monologue Festival 2021 – Program
21 Oct
22 Oct
23 Oct
24 Oct
27 Oct
28 Oct
29 Oct
Felix Kubin presents a series of monologues inspired by his radio play “Die Maschine steht still” (“The Machine stands still”). Text, synthetic sounds and songs unite to form a new version of E.M. Foster’s famous 1909 Sci-Fi classic, narrated from the machine’s perspective.
In Foster’s short story people live isolated in hexagonal honeycombs. They let “The Machine” regulate their vital functions and worship it like a deity. All bodily matters are substituted synthetically, immediate experiences are shifted to a spiritualized filter bubble in which only ideas and their derivatives count. What nobody seems to be noticing: The hum of the machine is changing, a catastrophe is brewing …
“Type 76” is an expression in machine language that is used by inhabitants of the underworld. People no longer crave personal encounters, communication only happens via the machine. In that sense, E.M. Foster’s Science-Fiction short story predicts the age of digital communication and asks the ever more relevant question: How can people maintain autonomy in the face of machines that are increasingly dominating our lives?
Felix Kubin is a specialist for electroacoustic experiments, audio books, futuristic pop music and performances. In 1998, he founded his own record label Gagarin Records. In his childhood, Kubin started to record his own pieces with the help of a synthesizer, an organ and a drum computer. Starting in the early 80s, Kubin was a part of circles of Neue Deutsche Welle. Starting from there, he expanded his universe to more distant zones, wrote dance theater pieces about instruction manuals and developed new radio formats like “Muzak Forzato”(dysfunctional utility music) and “Me & My Rhythm Box” (homemade instruments, Savvy Funk/ dOCUMENTA 14).
Concept & Composition Felix Kubin Speakers Achim Buch / Susanne Sachsse / Rafael Stachowiak / Susanne Reuter / Hannes Hellmann / Bela Brillowska et al. Special Effects Steve Heather / Felix Raeithel Radio Play Production NDR Director Michael Becker
30 Oct
Schönheit und Schrecken (lass dir alles geschehen)
31 Oct
