{"id":476,"date":"2023-07-05T15:49:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T13:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/machinaex.de\/2023\/05\/05\/life-goes-on-2022\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T12:41:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:41:47","slug":"life-goes-on-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/machinaex.de\/en\/life-goes-on-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Goes On (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Once known throughout East Germany for its delicious chocolate bonbons, the small city of Pr\u00fcckwitz is now home to a mass of abandoned factories and a faint hope for tourism development. A dedicated mayor and a U.S. investor could help the city recover economically\u2014but for a single parcel of land, which Treuhand sold to a fortune hunter who disappeared during the reunification of Germany, and which is now blocking the way to a new industrial park. As a result of decisions made long, long ago, Pr\u00fcckwitz\u2019s dreams of revival threaten to collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pr\u00fcckwitz does not exist, but if it did, it would look just like this. Following Layers of Life<\/em>, which was performed at the HAU in 2021, the game theater collective machina eX returns to this fictitious location of very real events to unearth remnants of the past in the present. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The multimedia board game Life Goes On<\/em> takes the audience on a voyage to the East German-West German past\u2014 without leaving the game table. Using game boards, converted smartphones, headphones, and event cards, players make their own Pr\u00fcckwitz, which they can recreate at home after the performance. A multimedia tabletop game that brings the elements of a game night into the performance space and the elements of the performance space into a game night. It is permanently available online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Premiere: October 2022, <\/a>HAU Hebbel am Ufer<\/u><\/a> (HAU3), Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Release of @home version: November 2022, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU4)<\/u><\/a>, Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

March 2023 Parktheater Iserlohn<\/u><\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 2023 FFT D\u00fcsseldorf<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

June 2025 Restaging at HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin for the festival On and On and On and On<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“A lovely and entertaining game with a great story, lots of laughs and a serious backstory.”<\/p>\u2014 Alexander Brock on KulturAspekte<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Interview with Lena V\u00f6cklinghaus <\/a>about <\/a>“Life Goes On” (in German)<\/a><\/p>Corso<\/em> on Deutschlandfunk<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Concept: <\/strong><\/em>machina eX \/\/\/ <\/em>Performance (Audio):<\/strong> <\/em>Anne Eigner, Godehard Giese, Sina Kie\u00dfling, Thomas Mielmann, Laura Naumann, David Simon, Stephan Stock, Leon Ullrich\/\/\/ <\/em>Text:<\/strong><\/em>Clara Ehrenwerth \/\/\/ <\/em>Interactive Design and Programming:<\/strong><\/em>Lasse Marburg, Benedikt Kaffai \/\/\/ <\/em>Dramaturgy:<\/strong><\/em>Lena V\u00f6cklinghaus \/\/\/ <\/em>Sound Design:<\/strong><\/em>Matthias Millhoff \/\/\/ <\/em>Collaboration Game Design:<\/strong><\/em>Anton Rose \/\/\/ <\/em>Scenography:<\/strong><\/em>F\u00f6r K\u00fcnkel, Mirjam Hildbrand \/\/\/ <\/em>Interface and UX Design:<\/strong><\/em>Elisa Haubert \/\/\/ <\/em>Graphic Design:<\/strong><\/em>Ines Strzedulla \/\/\/ <\/em>Collaboration Programming:<\/strong><\/em>Philip Steimel \/\/\/ <\/em>Production management:<\/strong><\/em>Sina Kie\u00dfling<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Production<\/strong>: machina eX. Co-production:<\/strong> HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Funded by:<\/strong> The Berlin Senate Department of Culture and Civic Solidarity, Fonds Darstellende K\u00fcnste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media under the rubric of NEUSTART KULTUR.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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