ICH NEHM DIR ALLES WEG - EIN SCHLAGERBALLETT (I’ll Take Everything – A Schlager Ballet) combines the Black protagonists of German Schlager music with the high-culture export hit Pina Bausch and her company. Shalala-ing through the evening, this forceful production puts the aesthetics of Schland under the microscope. Behind their sugar-sweet grins and undeniable talent, the ensemble brandishes baseball bats and moral hammers. What else could you expect when Joana Tischkau unpacks another shelf from the Museum für Schwarze Unterhaltung und Black Music?
Without presenting any warrant, the ensemble barges through the annals of Schlager history, driving out its straightness, Pina Bausch’s carnations , and the leftovers of its völkisch spirt. You gotta have a little fun, as they say. This close up look at the German entertainment public’s lack of innovation and fickle gaze is bound to send shivers down your spine.

ARTISTIC DIRECTION & CHOREOGRAPHY Joana Tischkau PERFORMANCE & CHOREOGRAPHY Dayron Domínguez Piedra, Sidney Kwadjo Frenz, Ellias Hampe, Anne-Kathrin Hartmann, Moses Leo, Deborah Macauley, Carlos Daniel Valladores Carvajal, Sophie Yukiko SOUND & COMPOSITION Frieder Blume COSTUME Nadine Bakota SET Carlo Siegfried TECHNICAL DIRECTION Hendrik Borowski ASSISTANT DIRECTION Anta Helena Recke PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Lisa Gehring PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Lianne Mol STAGE AND COSTUME ASSISTANT Marie Göhler OUTSIDE EYE & INPUT Dr. Mariama Diagne PHOTOS Lennart Brede