’68 is turning 50, the children of the “children of Marx & Coca Cola” already have children of their own. They will learn about 1968 the same way that earlier generations learned about 1848, as Hannah Arendt suspected: “Failure as chance!” Yet it is precisely failed revolutions that leave traces and establish an ‘invisible republic’. andcompany&Co. started their search for an IMAGINARY MOVEMENT in Frankfurt am Main, which will bring them to Berlin in June and from there further eastward to Prague, Sofia and St. Petersburg. They are not demanding: “All power to the imagination!”, they’re just acting on the call. They turned up at the sites of the revolts: A Marx flag fluttered in the wind on May 5th (Marx’s 200th birthday) when the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University in Frankfurt is renamed to Karl-Marx-University. They took a trip to the German-French border in search for the site of Dany Cohn-Bendit’s secret border crossing. With his former comrades they screamed out in a chorus: “We don’t give a shit about your borders!” Europe without borders – an ‘invisible republic’? Or the soviet republic that Karl Liebknecht called for 50 years earlier at the Berlin Palace? Two months later he and Rosa Luxemburg were murdered by the Freikorps. What did they say again in 1848? “A spectre is haunting Europe…”

Lecture/ Performance
7 pm

HAU 2 – Hebbel am Ufer
As part of the “Performing Arts Festival Berlin 2018”
Hallesches Ufer 32
10963 Berlin