Gernot Wieland with Carla Åhlander and Konstantin von Sichart

This event takes place as part of Berlin Art Week 2025.

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A fox jumps into the Spree.
A human thinks he has to save him.
What do we pass on—in language, in images, in gestures?
What would we tell the children?
Maybe everything.
Maybe just: That we don’t know either?
What happens when a puppet show collapses before it ever takes the stage? What remains when the cast walks out—except, perhaps, a sock puppet too stubborn to quit?

Monologue of a sock or What would we have told the children? is a lecture performance born from the ashes of a doomed production for children and adults. Somewhere between memory and make-believe, three voices lead the audience through stories of animals and childhood, hierarchies and homes, and the quiet comedy of trying and failing. With a mixture of storytelling, moving image, and the occasional threadbare puppet, this performance is not quite theatre, not quite a lecture. Absurd, touching, and gently anarchic, this is a piece about what remains when plans unravel, and the unexpected stories that then might emerge—also for the sock puppet left behind.

Gernot Wieland, *1968 in Horn, Austria. Places of belonging: Hiking in the mountains in the fog, without any visibility. Book: Thievery and Songs, 2020.

Carla Åhlander, *1966 in Lund, Sweden. Places of belonging: Where my languages are spoken. Book: Carla Åhlander. Learn to read, 2022.

Konstantin von Sichart, *1989 in Munich, FRG. Places of belonging: Berlin in summer, Brazil. Affinity: Urso Ki Ti Schubsen.