Radio as a murderous machine. Before and during the Rwandese genocide of 1994, the radio station RTLM incited murder in no uncertain terms. The International Institute of Political Murder makes a reconstruction with Hate Radio. It puts survivors of the genocide on stage, reconstructs the radio station and makes the audience experience how murderous a usually good-natured medium like radio can be.
Four characters are on stage : three Hutu extremists and the white Italian-Belgian Georges Ruggiu. How does racism work ? How can words dehumanize a people ? An installation consisting of documents and testimonies gives the answer. The walls of the studio serve as projection screens for a selection of stories both from perpetrators and victims. In this way the audience comes face to face with the consequences of a racist ideology.
The international company The International Institute of Political Murder was set up at the end of 2007 in order to reinforce the exchange between theatre, visual art, film and historical reconstruction.
IIPM pays special attention to the exactitude of facts. That’s why all IIPM projects are based on extensive research in archives and interviews with witnesses.
With Afazali Dewaele, Sébastien Foucault, Estelle Marion, Nancy Nkusi, Diogène Ntarindwa and Dorcy Rugamba and the voices of Thomas Bading und Sven Tjaben / Book and director Milo Rau / Dramaturge and conceptual management Jens Dietrich / Stage and equipment Anton Lukas / Video Marcel Bächtiger / Sound Jens Baudisch / Production Management Milena Kipfmüller / Public Relations Yven Augustin / Research Milo Rau, Jens Dietrich, Eva-Maria Bertschy / Director assistent Mascha Eucher-Martinez / Sound Design Peter Göhler / Corporate DesignNina Wolters / WebdesignJonas Weissbrodt / Project documentation ennart Laberenz (Film) & Daniel Seiffert (Foto- grafie) / Consulting Marie-Soleil Frère, Assumpta Muginareza & Simone Schlindwein / Begleitprogramm Bregenz: Eva Birkenstock / Begleitprogramm Zürich: Hayat Erdogan / Begleitprogramm Bern & wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit: Eva Bertschy /Begleitprogramm Basel: Rolf Bossart / Casting Brussel/Genf Sebastiâo Tadzio / Casting Kigali Didacienne Nibagwire / PR Kigali Flora Kaitesi / Coproduction IIPM Berlin/Zürich mit Migros-Kulturprozent Schweiz, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) Berlin, Schlachthaus Theater Bern, Beursschouwburg Brüssel, migros mu- seum Zürich, Kaserne Basel, Südpol Luzern, Verbrecher Verlag Berlin, Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre und Ishyo Arts Centre Kigali. / With support of Hauptstadtkulturfonds (HKF), Migros-Kulturprozent Schweiz, Pro Helvetia – Schweizer Kulturstiftung, Stiftung Kulturelles Basel-Land, Bildungs- und Kulturdepartement des Kantons Luzern, Amt für Kultur St. Gallen, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung, Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F. V. S., GGG Basel, Goethe-Institut Brüssel, Goethe-Institut Johannesburg, Brussels Airlines, Spacial Solutions, Commission Nationale de Lutte contre le Génocide (CNLG), Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst (DED), Contact FM Kigali, IBUKA Rwanda (Dachorganisation der Opferverbände des Genozids in Ruanda), Hochschule der Künste Bern (HKB).
A brief history of hell
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