by Julia Weber
Audio walk and live performance. A production of the fringe ensemble in cooperation with Maison du Futur, Zurich / 400asa, Zurich
Anyone familiar with her novel “Die Vermengung” will find Julia Weber’s unmistakable language and unique sound in “Raue Zungen”: A poetic text – full of tenderness and resistant energy.
In “Raue Zungen”, Julia Weber addresses aspects of female rage, resistance, reflection and liberation from role models. She discovers the typically feminine in a rage that does not destroy, but changes and creates new spaces. Weber immerses us in a flow of images and episodes in which her female characters transform, sometimes becoming speechless, sometimes louder, retreating and returning under the pressure of the outside gaze.
Frank Heuel (fringe ensemble) stages the text as a combination of theater performance and short audio walk and thus relies on the immersive power of the text, which Julia Weber wrote for Bettina Marugg (fringe ensemble) and Wanda Wylowa (Maison du Futur, among others).
Fotos Spielzeit 2024/2025: 1-4 © Judith Stursberg | JUCAPIX; 5-9 © Annika Ley
Fotos Spielzeit 2025/2026: © C. Grönemeyer
Premiere
January 17, 2025
January 18, 2025
Theater im Ballsaal, Bonn
May 09, 2025
May 11, 2025
Kellertheater, Winterthur
May 14, 2025
May 15, 2025
May 17, 2025
even theater, Zurich
October 03, 2025
October 04, 2025
October 31, 2025
November 01, 2025
November 28, 2025
November 29, 2025
Theater im Ballsaal, Bonn
Tickets are available at BonnTicket
With: Bettina Marugg, Julia Goldberg (2025/26 season) / Bettina Marugg, Wanda Wylowa (2024/25 season)
Director: Frank Heuel
Space, video, costumes: Annika Ley
Assistant director: Lutz Ackermann
Public relations: Claudia Grönemeyer
Production management: Svenja Pauka
“Julia Weber belongs like Katja Brunner, whose premiere ran simultaneously at Theater Bonn (editor’s note). d.) is one of the founders of the feminist writers “group RAUF. Raue Zungen” is also about internal and external views of female figures from different generations and the attribution of gender roles. Here, too, there is no linear dramaturgy. It is a metaphor-rich text full of tenderness and surreal poetry. Again and again there is talk of a girlfriend who expanded like a plant in a dream, overgrowing everything and disappearing herself in the process. The actresses Bettina Marugg and Wanda Wylowa, directed by Frank Heuel, play this with fabulous energy in a mixture of closeness and distance.”
Elisabeth-Einecke Klövekorn, kultur
Supported by: Federal City of Bonn, Ministry of Culture and Sciences of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. The performances in Zurich are sponsored by the Ernst Göhner Foundation.
