Address: Fidicinstraße 40, 10965 Berlin, Germany
Language: Without spoken language / English

The ‘Fest of Fools’ is a festival that highlights humor as a medium in choreography, cultural practice and social dialogue. Held over three days (14-16 May), the festival brings together four choreographers who utilise humor as a liberating cultural technique to address and clarify its systemic relevance, particularly during times of crisis. Through four performances and one workshop ‘Humor Labor’ (15 May, 10:00-13:00), the festival investigates humor as both a cultural and social phenomenon. The works presented aim to examine humor's essential aspects and its cathartic function, exploring its potential to create distance, provoke thoughts, and break societal boundaries. The festival seeks to present a variety of artistic expressions, using humor as a tool for critique and a catalyst for transformation. This diversity of approaches will invite the Berlin audience, which comes from varied backgrounds and aesthetic tastes, into a dialogue around humor's role in contemporary society.

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Duration: 2 hours
Genre: Performance

Credits: 

ha ha ha hi! Concept, Choreography, Direction, Performance: Felix Baumann 
Outside Eyes: Nicole Nigro, Raúl Vargas Torres, Jan Zöller, Kysy Fischer 
Stage Design: Carl Nitnelav
Music Design: Felix Baumann 
Lighting Design: Andreas Salesman
Video: Alicja Hoppel
Production: Von B bis Z | Baumann & Zöller GbR 
Partners: LOFFT DAS THEATER Leipzig, Kulturräume GmbH Berlin, Chamäleon Berlin, Tollhaus Karlsruhe

The research from which the project emerged was supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. The production was structurally supported in form of residence space by following production houses and organizations: LOFFT DAS THEATER Leipzig, Kulturraum GmbH Berlin, Chamäleon Berlin and Tollhaus Karlsruhe.

DauerDeviation Concept, Choreography, Performance: Kysy Fischer 
Music and Sound: Mattias Larsen

The edition of the festival in 2025 is funded by the czech german fund for future.

Get in touch

Production contact and Status: 

• Devouver by Alica Minar: tourable from 2025 / contact: alica@alicaminarcol.com 

• ha ha ha hi! by Felix Baumann: tourable from 2025 / contact: Von.B.bis.Z@gmx.net / represented at the Berlin Performing Arts Market

• The Trinity by Raul Vargas Torres: tourable from 2026 / contact: giveatoss@gmail.com 

• DauerDeviation by Kysy Fischer: tourable from 2026 / contact: kysyfischer@gmail.com 

• Gats Surprise / Scapes of Landscape by Lukáš Karásek (tYhle collective): tourable from 2025  / contact: lukas@lukaskarasek.cz 

How to book? 

IETM Berlin participants can buy reduced tickets for €11 by choosing the ‘student’ option in the ticket shop below. An additional 5–10 tickets will be reserved for of IETM Berlin participants at the box office on the day of the performance.

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