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In the Tempodrom

Dancing at the door of doomsday

A concert to promote a young, creative and democratic future

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Tempodrom, Möckernstr. 10, 10963 Berlin

3 hours

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Our thanks to our partners

A concert by Kollektiv Untergang x WeGoApart with ART in co-operation with the Deutsche Oper Berlin

About the performance

In a world that resembles a volcano that threatens to erupt at any moment, we must use all our energy to overcome current challenges together. “Dancing at the door of doomsday” is a charity concert that proves how creativity, teamwork and democratic commitment can create something extraordinary.

The event is a cooperation between Kollektiv Untergang e.V., WeGoApart With Art e.V. and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. During the three-hour concert, we will be working with young musicians to draw attention to current crises, anti-democratic tendencies and social divisions. We are taking a stand for democracy and cultural diversity. The Young Chorus of the Deutsche Oper will provide musical accompaniment to the musicians performing their songs. The result is an extraordinary programme that combines different musical genres and choral singing in an explosive way.

The organisers are two associations that are passionately committed to promoting culture, working to ensure that young people's voices are heard more and that they are actively involved in decision-making processes. Culture is and should be accessible to everyone. Under the motto ‘Be loud for culture, because promoting culture means strengthening democracy!’, the collective Untergang e.V., in the role of initiator, brought the two other partners (WeGoApart with ART e.V. and Deutsche Oper Berlin) together to pursue a common goal: to emphasise the importance of culture and democracy in the personal development of young people. With “Dancing at the door of doomsday”, they want to show how powerful music is as a tool for social cohesion.

The profits from the concert will be donated to charitable projects. Through an interactive vote on the day of the event, audience members will experience democracy live and decide for themselves which project the donation portion of their ticket will go towards. The plan is to choose from three different organisations that represent the core identity of “Dancing at the door of doomsday”: the promotion of young, creative minds, the connection between town and country, cultural support in structurally weak regions and the strengthening of our democracy.

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12
DEC

Adventskalender im Foyer: Das 12. Fensterchen

Today in the foyer: ‘The Snow Queen’ as a live audio play
A reading with Burkhard Ulrich and Fanny Frohnmeyer, with Lukas Zeuner on the drums
5:00 p.m. / Parkettfoyer
Duration: approx. 25 minutes / Free admission


‘Behold! Now we begin. When we reach the end of the story, we will know more than we do now, because it was an evil goblin! It was one of the very worst, it was the devil! One day he was in a good mood because he had made a mirror that had the property of making everything good and beautiful reflected in it shrink to almost nothing, but what was no good and looked bad was emphasised and became even worse. The most magnificent landscapes looked like overcooked spinach in it, and the best people became disgusting or stood on their heads without a torso,’ so begins the fairy tale “The Snow Queen” by Hans Christian Andersen.

By an unfortunate accident, a splinter of this evil magic mirror jumps into Kay's heart , whereupon he suddenly finds life in his small town quite awful and lets himself be taken by the nasty Snow Queen to the far north. But Kay's friend Gerda sets out to save her best friend. With the help of a crow and a reindeer, she eventually finds her way to the cold north of Lapland and, with the true power of friendship and laughter, she is able to free Kay from the clutches of the Snow Queen.

Today, in the foyer, the tenor Burkhard Ulrich and the director of our Junge Deutsche Oper Fanny Frohnmeyer read this touching and wonderful fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen for all fairy tale fans, old and young! And our percussionist Lukas Zeuner provides the sound for the story with marimbas, a xylophone and all kinds of rhythm and sound instruments. And all this live and very close to the audience, next to the large fir tree in the parquet foyer.