Six young people are sitting on a small platform on a stage with cobblestones lying on it. Behind them are three young people with wings on their backs.
Theatertreffen der Jugend 2025: Flügelschläge
© Berliner Festspiele

16 young people show moments of growing up. They take a look back to antiquity: the father-son conflict from the legend of Daedalus and Icarus is whirled into the air. Hermes, the messenger of the gods, appears in various guises and delivers lots of parcels that have not been ordered. “Tschüss Kindheit” says Ikaros in many voices and pushes himself off the grey stone. It flaps its unknown wings: towards the sun, ever further, ever higher. A crash doesn’t seem unlikely, but much greater than the fear is the desire for sunshine in life and a wide horizon.

With

Lejsa Adrović, Ole Agthe, Ilona Iozefine Bundic, Viktoriia Dashukova, Jule Dresler, Levin Fortmeier, Nagham Jabboulieh, Liam Lengle, Julian Mauder, Anawar Omar Mohamud, Vitalii Peterherin, Alamira Sabr Albarrak, Denis Sotoc Mañas, Pavlo Stasiuk, Yevhenii Vlasov, Felix Wegener

Lina Joost-Krüger, Hanna PukaDirection
Karoline Khan, Margit Ostern – School Project Management
Georgios KoliosStage Design, Video
Tom StellamannsCostume
Olaf Brunkhorst – Light Design
David MassonetSound
Richard Schneider – Video Operator
Peter Rech – Soundtrack, Post-production