Brave Women – Memories into the Now
What if history were told differently, if aspects other than those shaped by male-dominated doctrines of life were passed on, if other skills were recognized and brought to the fore?
Premiere: January 31, 2026 SOLD OUT
February 7, 8, 11, 2026 SOLD OUT
Additional performances: February 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 2026. Tickets can be purchased via Eventfrog or by emailing kontakt@volksbuehne-basel.ch.
Each at 7.30 PM at Druckereihalle/Ackermannshof Basel
After each performance, there will be a discussion with the ensemble.
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Readings
February 9, 2026, 7 PM, Reading from Ingrid Strobel’s
‘Vermessene Zeit – Der Wecker, der Knast und ich’
at Cheesmeyer, Sissach. On donation basis.
Ingrid Strobel, 1952–2024, was a journalist, activist, author and documentary filmmaker. Without her tireless research, establishing contact and talking to the surviving women who were active in the resistance against National Socialism, this part of female history would also have remained unheard.
Her book ‘Never Say You’re Taking Your Last Walk’, about women in the armed resistance against fascism and German occupation, is now considered a standard work and was written by her during her imprisonment, which she describes in ‘Vermessene Zeit’. Carmen Dalfogo and Anina Jendreyko will talk about and read from her life and work.
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February 15, 2026, 5 PM, reading and song
Nitsa Gavriilidou – Women on Makronisos
at Cheesmeyer, Sissach. On donation basis.
Clémence Gabrielidis and Anina Jendreyko. About the lives and resistance of women on the prison island of Makronissos, Greece.
Thousands who had participated in the resistance against the German Wehrmacht in Greece were persecuted after liberation and dragged from one prison island to the next. Many lost their lives. Nitsa was among them – until she ended up on Makronissos with 5,000 other women. Her book is a historical document.
Picking up a pen and writing a book about Makronisos is difficult, especially when you are already seventy-eight years old. I decided to do so because I read a report in a newspaper that left me speechless. It said: ‘During the years when the island functioned as a national reformatory, there were no women on Makronisos (…).’
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March 1, 2026, 5 PM, Brave Women – Memories into the Now
From the lives of Gertrud Woker, Clara Thalmann and others, film excerpts, biographies, texts with the ensemble of the Volksbühne Basel
at Cheesmeyer, Sissach. On donation basis.
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April 19, 2026, 5 PM, Rose Ausländer
An evening exploring the work of Rose Ausländer
Poems, texts and biography
at Cheesmeyer, Sissach. On donation basis.
Rose Ausländer (born 11 May 1901 in Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary; died 3 January 1988 in Düsseldorf) was a poet from Bukovina. She lived in Austria-Hungary, Romania, the USA, Austria and Germany. For Rose Ausländer, writing was synonymous with life and survival in a life marked by flight, exile, homelessness and searching.
“Why do I write? Because, in search of my identity, I speak more clearly to myself and to the wordless arc. It stretches me. I am eager for the words that want to come to me. I talk to them, to myself, to you, I talk to you, asking you to listen to me.”
Continuing Education
Short Advanced Studies (SAS): Trauma-Sensitive Theater Work and Resilience Promotion in an Intercultural Context
This practice-oriented continuing education program provides solid skills and tools for everyday professional life in intercultural work.
Instructors: Anina Jendreyko & Daniel Bausch
Thursday, February 26 – Saturday, February 28, 2026
Thursday, April 9 – Saturday, April 11, 2026
Registration deadline: January 31, 2026