Schreien (SCREAMING) III – Eine Forschungsreihe / a research series
With new works by: Contagious (Sabine Ercklentz, Andrea Neumann, Mieko Suzuki), Sabine Ercklentz, Andrea Neumann, Lina Majdalanie & Rabih Mroué
Performed by Antonia Baehr aka Henry Wilde / Werner Hirsch
German, English (little language)
20:00
Schreien (SCREAMING) is a project about screaming as screaming. In collaboration with friends, colleagues and experts, Antonia Baehr explores this form of expression as a sovereign entity, detached from causal baggage and intelligible language, looking at the thing itself: the sound and the form, the music, the choreography and the drama, the rhythm and the gesture – and not least the silent, soundless scream.
The laboratory series brings together friends, colleagues and experts who engage with screaming in practical, performative or scientific ways. Vocalists, composers, performers, queer/feminist activists and anthropologists are invited to work with screaming and share their knowledge within the group.
In parallel, performative research presentations take place, in which Baehr performs scream scores written for them. In each edition, Antonia Baehr aka Henry Wilde / Werner Hirsch presents four of these pieces at a time, in the presence of their authors and in the forms intended by them.
Cast, Credits & Bios
Overall concept, production, performance: Antonia Baehr
With new works by: Ute Wassermann, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Iz Öztat, Neo Hülcker
Artistic collaboration: Carola Caggiano
Production: Alexandra Wellensiek (make up productions)
Authors of the scream scores:
Scream pieces I (Sophiensæle, 10.05.2026): Christian Kesten, Jule Flierl, Henry Wilde, Lisa Lucassen
Scream pieces II (Sophienkirche / Sophiensæle, 27.11.2026): Neo Hülcker, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Iz Öztat, Ute Wassermann
Scream pieces III (20nine30 fmr. Ölbergkirche, 11.12.2026): Contagious (Sabine Ercklentz, Andrea Neumann, Mieko Suzuki), Sabine Ercklentz, Andrea Neumann, Lina Majdalanie & Rabih Mroué
Thank you to the participants of the scream laboratories:
Danilo Andrés, Sarmen Almond, Alexey Kokhanov, Arantxa Martinez, Luise Meier, Ángela Muñoz, Agata Siniarska, Claire Vivianne Sobottke
And thank you to:
Lindy Annis, Sumi Jang, Hysterics Unplugged, Federica Nicastro, Andrzej Profus, Carola Schaal, Hanne Schellmann, Sarah Vanhee, Dirk Woywodt
A production by Antonia Baehr in co-production with Sophiensæle
Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion
With support from Theaterhaus Berlin and 20nine30