The director comes in and loudly says into the room: “I already had a two-hour session this morning! Very successful. Structures! Structures and people!” He didn’t understand anything.

Based on the performer's own experiences as a director's trainee, the lecture performance addresses the functioning of power and hierarchy in the theater from a radically personal perspective. The individual story always points to something larger, to a system: diary entries and voice messages alternate with feminist analysis and structural criticism. A trainee has made enough coffee and begins to speak.

Text, concept and performance: Hannah Helbig
Technical support: Elisabeth Dimigen

Thanks to Xavier Le Roy and the course "Lecture Performance?" in the summer semester of 2023 at the ATW Gießen and to the German Theater Association for advice and support.

Hannah Helbig
*2001 in Wiesbaden, is a student, intern and theater maker at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Gießen. She has already developed various collective theater works. She is interested in questioning the unquestioned through theatrical means and oscillating between canon, institutional and self-criticism. With her lecture performance “Structures and People” she won the audience award of the Körber Studio Junge Regie 2024.