Balkan Express

Spieltriebe Festival

Theater Osnabrück takes the Balkan Express and embarks on a journey through time to the former Yugoslavia: from the utopias and myths of its founding as a non-aligned state between East and West to its disintegration into individual nation states and the four-year siege of Sarajevo. The arc is spanned with pop songs, Balkan brass bands, rock music, grand opera, symphonic music and, last but not least, poems by Bosnian poet Faruk Šehić. What remains is a longing remembrance of a shared dream that could not withstand the upheavals of world history and internal contradictions. A musical and literary foray that travels together with dance, opera, orchestra, band and actors to a bygone country that for many still lives on as a myth.