A radio station in the border region of the GDR. At night, the transmitter goes on air. Inside the station, a secret transmission develops over many years. Conversations, songs and fragmented memories accumulate and overlap. While the restricted zone and the death strip shape the landscape along the inner German border outside, a radio transmission emerges that never became part of the official archives.
»Midnight. Transmission from the Restricted Zone« is a musical documentary theatre piece about Sinti life realities in East Germany during the Cold War. The production is based on interviews, archival materials and family memories — voices that rarely appear in official historiography. The documentary material is combined with poetic fiction and voices, sound and archival material form a theatrical composition about memory, invisibility and the passing on of history.
Cat Jugravu and the Rom*nja Theatre Collective / Kelipen e.V. create theatre at the intersection of performance, archival work and memory culture. Their work centers Sinti and Romani perspectives through documentary and performative forms, spoken and sung predominantly in Romanes.
