Oratorium: Doyçland Eine Discographie des Lebens von Caner Akdeniz
Oratorium: DoyçlandEine Discographie des Lebens von Caner Akdeniz
Diversity is our Home’ – these words light up the Oberhausen night sky in neon colours. But what do they mean?
The band Doyçland embarks on a search for clues through music, exploring the songs of the people who were drawn to us by coal, steel and recruitment agreements from the 1960s onwards, those who came here from Spain, Greece, the former Yugoslavia and Turkey to graft.
Songs by Cem Karaca, Juan Molina and Gülcan Opel tell the tale of Germany as a foreign land, incorporating longing, homesickness and disappointment about the broken promise of a ‘golden’ future. For all their quiet and melancholy moments, however, they also celebrate the life and the sense of community while appealing for peaceful coexistence.
In this evening of songs, director Caner Akdeniz sends us on a musical journey from the economic miracle of West Germany to the present day. Together with fictional band Doyçland, he revisits the songs of the migrant workers and arranges them in the form of an oratorio. With the songs, he uses music to explore terms such as identity, culture and origin, while showing us the pain points in recent German history. Doyçland is an oratorio of forgotten songs and a discography of a people separated from their homelands.
Production Staff
Director and stage design: Caner Akdeniz
Musical Direktor: Marc-Rainer Kamp
Costumes: Emir Medić
Dramaturg: Jascha Fendel
Bilder
Trailer
Pressestimmen
„Mit „Gastarbeiter“-Songs in vier Sprachen glänzt eine groß aufspielende „Doyçland“-Band und liefert eine alternative Geschichte der Bundesrepublik. Der Liederabend, gefeiert mit stehenden Ovationen und energischen „Zugabe“-Rufen, lebte von einer ungeheuren Reibung: zwischen den mitreißend interpretierten Liedern in vier Sprachen (Türkisch, Serbisch, Griechisch und Spanisch) und den meist bitteren, oft zornig aufbegehrenden Texten. Die vier Musiker der „Doyçland“-Band waren ideale Begleiter, um das Publikum wie im Fluge mitzunehmen. Das Erstaunlichste dieses Abends: Selbst nach einem Dutzend zorniger Lieder schwebt das Publikum beseelt nach Hause.” Ralph Wilms, WAZ
„Revue authentischer, emotionaler, musikalisch mitreißender Lieder.” Klaus Stübler, Ruhr Nachrichten