A pirate radio broadcast in the restricted zone of the GDR transmits Sinti voices at night. Inside the station, a clandestine transmission develops over the years. Conversations, songs, and fragmented memories layer over one another. While outside the restricted area and the death strip shape the landscape along the inner-German border, a radio transmission emerges that never became part of the official archives.
»Mitternacht. Transmission from the Restricted Zone« is a lyrical drama about Sinti life realities in East Germany during the Cold War. The production is based on interviews, archival material, and family memories, from which documentary as well as poetically fictional scenes are developed. Out of voices, sound, and archives emerges a theatrical evening about resistance, community, and remembrance.
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.
