Das Konzept bin ich (i can be your translator)

 »For the Nazis, euthanasia meant dying easily.For us, euthanasia means mourning.Because a lot of people die.We’re agreed on that.
But: Some of us wanted tanks on stage. Some of us wanted to tell jokes for exactly one hour. Some of us wanted to sing a Zarah Leander song.« The Nazis cynically used euthanasia, the idea of a light and easy death, to refer to their systematic murder of individuals who did not correspond to the received norms of health and productivity. Over the course of a year, the group I can be your translator has researched the historical facts and ideological justifications of these murders, traveled to monuments and memorials, confronted themselves and come to terms with their own emotions. In Das Konzept bin ich (I Am the Concept), they ask how to deal with the topic euthanasia on stage – they explore the topic performatively, create quiet moments of remembrance and mourning as well as strong moments of rejoinders. I can be your translated premiered Das Konzept bin ich (I Am the Concept) in September 2018 during the FAVORITEN festival and was awarded the GROUND SUPPORT prize.
This production was presented at the FAVORITEN festival (Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia)
With their work Das Konzept bin ich (I Am the Concept), the group i can be your translator takes a double risk: first of all, they have posed themselves a difficult topic and, secondly, by seriously attempting to realize a collective and equal working process as a mixed ability group. We were impressed and touched by their coming to terms with the subject, the equal space provided for communal mourning and thinking and their ability to nevertheless always find their way back, in a very humorous manner, to the here and now of the group process and making music together.Excerpt from the statement by the jury for the 2018 FAVORITEN festival