As part of the #3000Garagen festival in Chemnitz, artist and theatre maker Tanja Krone presents the music theatre piece "Songs of (In)Security". The production is dedicated to the topic of "security" and uses the voices of many Chemnitz residents in songs that are realised by performers and musicians. The Harthweg garage courtyard serves as the stage, where GDR garages are located that were once built collectively and independently - and are still in active use today.
In conversations with garage owners, security forces, religious communities and residents, many hours of interviews were conducted that tell of insecurities and protection mechanisms in the city. From this, Tanja Krone has produced catchy songs in which the city hears itself speak. The result is a negotiation about security in the old and new Chemnitz - the first security conference in the former East. Themes such as urban infrastructure, social tensions and historical developments are interpreted musically in a variety of ways - from sombre to danceable
Tanja Krone is a director, musician and performer. In her works, she declares art to be a space of possibility, searches for forms of communitisation and exploits the supposed poetry of the documentary as the textual basis of her artistic explorations. She is the inventor and co-founder of youth salvation armies, the world's largest women's rock bands and cities of women*. In her real series MIT ECHTEN REDEN and the accompanying concert performance MIT ECHTEN SINGEN, she continues to make the voices of / her (all-German) past heard in a variety of ways. Now she has listened more closely in Chemnitz and posed the question of visions for a "safe" future.
Travelling by bus or bike via Waldenburger Straße (bus stop Ernst-Heilmann-Straße) is recommended. There are garages on site, but no guest car parks.
