Dorothea Steinbauer: mimiCRY

Theater

Thursday, November 7, 19:30h, CCW

Mimi has her say. The half-dressed chimpanzee who is at the service of the ape Rotpeter in the evening in Kafka's “Report for an Academy”. “...I don't want to see her by day; she has the madness of the confused trained animal in her eyes; only I recognize that, and I can't bear it.” (Kafka). In Rotpeter, Franz Kafka creates a virtuoso border crosser between animal and human. Mimi also has a long, arduous path of “becoming human” behind her, albeit under different circumstances and: she is a woman! Women are better at adapting, pretending and imitating. She learns that talent is an obligation and quickly learns to use her human counterparts as a mirror for her development. An ambitious Madame Grand Utilité, this Mimi soon becomes socially irreplaceable.  With the scars that never want to close completely, the question of the ambivalence of female endurance, adaptability and willingness to adapt always arises in the background. Scientific findings, facts, fiction and fantasies, which envision a future society beyond Kafka's time, merge in Mimi's story into an oppressive, credible life story...

Admission: € 24.-

Mimi - Dorothea Steinbauer

“Dorothea Steinbauer's mimiCRY is remarkable in several respects. By biographically developing the story of Mimi, the fateful companion of the ape Rotpeter in Kafka's famous story “Report to an Academy”, the author creates a trans-textual, post-dramatic theater text, so to speak. And secondly, Mimi's fate, as told by Steinbauer, goes far beyond a debate on feminism and animal welfare. Current political questions such as how to deal with the completely different are played out, as are theories about language acquisition and the development of consciousness in the case of Mimi's academic career.” (Wilhelm Hengstler, Styrian writer, screenwriter and director)