Parlez - echte Piraten!, 2011

Slavery, crusades, pirates - when we were children, all this seemed to be in the past. Now, the first piracy trial in 400 years takes place in Hamburg. How is this possible? What kind of pirates are there off the coast of Somalia?

FUNDUS THEATER has invited 300 children to ask questions to the pirates of Puntland - what is life like as a pirate, what do you do with the loot, are there sea monsters? And secret agency has made its way to Kenya, into the Somali diaspora, to meet real pirates and ask them these questions.

Now, we invite the audience to a Parlez, to negotiate: What happens when the spectacle of piracy collides with the reality of piracy? What happens on the edges of jurisdiction, where common property and law are destroyed and have to be reimagined? What questions do the pirates have for us, the rich North?

An attempt at a globalization from below, a trial without accuser, a conversation with the voiceless, a collaboration of many partners, among them Mustafa Omar Muhamud and Mohamed Agane Farah from Somalia.

FUNDUS THEATER // Hamburg (September 2011)

Kampnagel Sommerfestival // Hamburg (August 2011)

Wiener Festwochen // Wien (June 2012)