Roden / Kukata Miti / Pembalakan

Daniel Kötter in collaboration with
Olande Byamungu, Ikbal Lubys, Wolfram Sander

Scenography Natalia Orendain
Dramaturgy Anna Ptak
Production Simone Graf, Beatrix Joyce
Technical director Catalina Fernandez

UA Radialsystem Berlin 23.-26.1.2025
Hellerau -Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden, Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster
PACT Zollverein Essen, Politik im freiem Theater Leipzig 2025

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The woods, the forest, the plantation. Wood, charcoal, palm oil. Where trees are cleared, the way people meet, farm and live together changes, locally and universally. 
 
Together with the Congolese women’s rights activist Olande Byamungu, the Indonesian instrument maker and musician Ikbal Lubys and the German carpenter and performer Wolfram Sander, the documentary filmmaker and theatre director Daniel Kötter is developing a film parcours and theatre forest in Roden / Kukata Mi/ / Pembalakan, taking the audience to the Bergisches Land near Cologne, to the Indonesian palm oil plantations in Kalimantan and to the charcoal kilns in South Kivu, DR Congo.
 
Using the concrete phenomenon of deforestation as an example, a kaleidoscope of the global abuse of forest and landscape, but also of forest as a space of possibility, is created.

Film stills from the project and documentation photos from Danny Tatzelt.