What is the difference between birthday cakes in Taiwan and in Germany? How is the weather in Frankfurt and Belarus? Do you also play “hit the pot” in Russia when celebrating a child's birthday?
And what does a Hongkonger wish for when they blow out their birthday candles? When we talk about cakes and weather, do we actually want to avoid talking about something more important?

This project is about the limit of language and the impossibility of baking the perfect cake. For this special year 2024 we would like to invite you to spend an intimate evening with us. By throwing an electronic music party we would like to share some special cake recipes from our homes, which are as multi-layered as language.

Happy birthday to me!

By and with:
Ching Wen, Crisis Hevonen, Vera Boitcova, Hanna Lau, Jonas Harksen, Linda Gao-Lenders, Laura-Marie Preßmar, Michelle Koprow, Anton Svoboda

Special Thanks to:
Internationales Theaterinstitut - Zentrum Deutschland
Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi - Rimini Protokoll

Productionphase (2024)
Supported by Stadt Frankfurt am Main - Dezernat für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Frankfurter Stiftung maecenia, Hessische Theaterakademie and TelepART Mobility Support

Researchphase (2023)
Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR and by Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst.
Supported by the PACT Zollverein (Essen) residency programme, with funding by the Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft Northrhein Westphalia.