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18 June – 6 July 2025, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Cologne, Düsseldorf

Autsch – Warum geht es mir so dreckig?

A person is sitting at a desk, reclined backwards, holding a small yellow pipe from which soap bubbles are rising. She is wearing a dark suit with pinstripes and a white shirt. There are various office objects on the desk, including a desk lamp, an orange telephone, cups, pens and piles of paper. The scene is illuminated in warm light.
Foto: Mayra Wallraff
A dark stage space with three islands of light. In the centre, a person sits at a wooden desk with a waste bin. On the table a desk lamp, telephone and office supplies. Lots of cables under the table. On the left is a large, high block with the inscription ‘WHY AM I SO DRECKIG?’. On the right is an overhead projector aimed at an illuminated projection screen. In the background is a shelf with various boxes and folders. The scene is lit from above by a fluorescent lamp and neon tubes.
Foto: Mayra Wallraff

Simone Dede Ayivi & Kompliz*innen

Autsch – Warum geht es mir so dreckig?

True Crime Performance

“Towards the end of this wonderfully clever and bitterly angry evening, the artist lets her personal hopes go up in flames. [...] ‘Autsch’ is not a resigned piece. Quite the opposite.” Patrick Wildermann, Tagesspiegel, 6.12.2024

Capitalism, climate crisis, pandemic – or maybe it’s the menopause? Simone Dede Ayivi is going through a bad time. What the precise reason for this might be, whether yoga might help and who actually profits from our individual and societal crises is what she plans to find out together with the audience throughout the evening – because the disappearance of our own sense of well-being is probably the biggest unsolved criminal case of many people’s lives. So her performance is set in a slightly run-down detective agency and takes the form of a true crime story: from an infestation of pests in her apartment to the cuts to the cultural sector, Ayivi works outwards from her personal experience to reach a systemic social level of people – particularly those in marginalised groups – living in precarious situations. In this entertaining detective story with live piano accompaniment, she steps up to expose structural grievances and to move issues of personal happiness and managing everyday life away from personal and into public discourse. She is also able to contrast the general misery with a cautious view of the future that draws strength from coming together and delights us with a particularly heartwarming finale.

The director, performer and columnist Simone Dede Ayivi produces texts and creates theatre from a Black feminist perspective. Her work ‘Autsch – Warum geht es mir so dreckig?’ was premiered at the Sophiensæle in Berlin.

Dates

27 June, 20:00
28 June, 19:00

Tickets

Regular price: 16 €
Reduced price: 11 €
Supporters' price: 25 €
Minimum price: 6 €

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Venue

TanzFaktur, Cologne

Duration

90 minutes

Discussion

On 21.06., the performance will be followed by an aftertalk (in German).

Language

German

Accessibility

(Haptic) Access Tour: Details per event Audiodeskription: Details per event Pick-up/assistance: by arrangement Inductive hearing system (T-coil): Details per venue Venue accessible for wheelchair users: Details per venue Toilet accessible for wheelchair users: Details per venue Venue accessible for people with walking disabilities: Details per venue Content note: Details per event

28.6., Haptic Access Tour (18:00) + audio description