Our festival courtyard becomes a foosball pub! Dare to sit at the table with world champion Sarah Riebschläger or practice in pairs.
Sarah Riebschläger is a player in the German national team, came first in the women’s doubles at the 2021 German Championships, became world champion in 2022 and was ranked 4th in the women’s world rankings in 2023. She started playing table football in pubs in 2012, played for the Berlin club TK Piranyards and in the Bundesliga at Yard Berlin.
Before the queer ping pong showdown this weekend, we’re already setting up the tables. At the Tischntennisclub Geräuschkulisse you can book your table by the hour, train your topspin, practice mixed doubles or just play like in the park (without the wind).
Tehran in April 2006: The first official friendly takes place between the Iranian women’s football team and a local Berlin girl’s team, in front of more than 1000 cheering female fans. The entire stadium is electric, charged with a high voltage of girl power. A couple of men hang around in front of the gates, trying to sneak a peek over the fence. They are barred from entering today. It has taken a year’s hard work on the parts of both teams of young women to make this happen. But now, after overcoming numerous obstacles, they are really playing. And these 90 minutes are about more than just a football game. Both the desire for self-determination and equality are being expressed here and it is clear: change is possible.
A person trains. A machine steers. Together they prepare for their first cycling race. In this durational training performance, the performer follows an algorithmically generated load structure. What happens when the body no longer functions according to feeling, but according to data sets? When the decision about pace, rest and exertion is no longer made by humans – but is controlled by artificial intelligence? Every day, Ballhaus Ost becomes a training center, exhaustion becomes performance.
Martin Schnippa was born in Annaberg-Buchholz, grew up in Weimar and studied cultural studies and aesthetic practice (diploma) in Hildesheim. Today, Martin works as a performer, actor, artistic director and production manager for national and international film, television, advertising and theater productions, and in his work he repeatedly explores the interface between body, sport and theatricality.
»Pump« is the beginning of the evening, and maybe of a party. A warm-up, a ritual, a rehearsal of strength. Between choreography and bodybuilding, two performers explore muscle not as domination, but as relation—a medium of touch, support, repetition. They lift and pose, strain and hold, not to perfect a body, but to complicate what strength can mean. Between drag and discipline, spectacle and slowness, it opens a space for shared exertion. Posing becomes gesture, becomes form, becomes commemoration, becomes shared joy.
»Pump« is a project evolved through the participation of Rahel Crawford Barra, Nattan Dobkin, Emil Maria Ertl, Sarah Leghissa, and Simon van Saarloos, and will be performed by Rahel and Nattan in this iteration.
The badminton net is stretched in the sports hall. The court is marked out. The shuttlecocks are provided. 60-minute time slots, bookable for everyone.
The sports hall is open. There are mats, there are balls, there is training equipment. An open sports room for everyone to play, work out or hang out.
Homophobic, sexist and racist banter is commonplace in darts. However, this »culture« doesn’t stop at the regulars’ table in the pub, but permeates the structures of the Berlin darts scene. A discussion about what can be done to make the sport of darts more democratic and diverse. With stories and case studies that are as tragic as they are unbelievable.
The ADV Zebras Berlin e.V. is the first anti-fascist darts club in Berlin. Its members are democratically organized and are committed to open-mindedness and diversity in the sport of darts.
The ADV Zebras dartistas are holding a beginners’ workshop for all those who want to learn how to throw their darts properly.
The ADV Zebras Berlin e.V. is the first anti-fascist darts club in Berlin. The members are democratically organized and are committed to open-mindedness and diversity in the sport of darts.
Streetball Team Berlin is organizing a tournament in the Sportsaal Ost. The game is played 3 against 3 up to 12 points or 10 minutes. There are no referees and the focus is on fair play. We play for a first place for each tournament. Depending on the participating teams, we divide into categories such as mixed, men’s or youth.
Registration here.
The Streetball Team of the Gesellschaft für Sport- und Jugendsozialarbeit (GSJ) is a mobile project that travels all over Berlin to spread the good news of the orange ball and the spirit of togetherness. The team runs various free basketball/streetball practice sessions for children and young adults, organizes accessible fun tournaments and hosts the Streetball Nights and the Streetball Challenge Berlin. Through sports-oriented youth social work, the team helps young people to organize themselves and promotes values such as fair play and voluntary commitment. The project cooperates with sports clubs, schools, public and independent organizations.
