TIERGARTEN - Theater Babel Rotterdam & het DoelenEnsemble

Muziek

In the musical performance tiergarten a group of players with and without disabilities 80 years after the end of the Second World War, the mass murder of psychiatric patients in Nazi Germany looks back. All actors would have been a victim because of their vulnerability, appearance or disability. This gives them a special position to speak out about this history. They look back on the events from their own reality, in which they experience exclusively every day. They demand the right to the story: Not About Us, Without Us.

Anyone who could not work, learn or cure, were economically useless in Nazi Germany and received unsolicited euthanasia. The most systematic phase of this "purification" is known as T4, an abbreviation for Tiergartenstrasse 4, the address where the program was conceived and organized.

In tiergarten this moving story is put down as a collective story. The actors alternately play perpetrators, victims, family members, witnesses and also themselves. Muziektheater is being through the collaboration with the Doelensemble. Christine Cornwell and Maarten van Veen of the Doelensemble play both Beethoven and contemporary music.