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Arts.21 | The Long-Term Unemployed in the Limelight

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Channel: DW News · 2009 · Entertainment

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More and more theatre productions in Germany are focussing on the poorest victims of the global economic crisis. Playwrights are finding material in the new poverty. Directors put those who have been hardest hit onstage. Is this a new politicization of the theatre? Oliver Bukowski's Kritische Masse (Critical Mass) in Hamburg spotlights what he calls this pre-revolutionary situation. In Silberhöhe gibt's nicht mehr (Silberhöhe no longer exists),in Halle,author and director Dirk Laucke lets young people from a run-down district of town have their say. ARTS.21 takes a look.

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