OGLETHORPE

Time isn't just passing; it's flying by. Before 2025 comes to an end, we invite you to an untimely gathering: a peek inside a time capsule that is set to be opened in the year 8113. Inside, you'll find what the past has in store for the future.

Who decides what is worth keeping? How much time do we have left to form a clear picture of everything around us? Do clocks tick steadily—and for how much longer? In a guided tour through an endless list of curious objects, the Landungsbrücken Frankfurt itself becomes a time capsule and attempts, for one evening, to get a handle on time. Or is it multiple times? The objects’ own times overlap in stumbling rhythms; time archivist Jacob Bussmann lends them voices, and by the end, we will all have aged a little together.

You can survive forever in the cold.
The oldest jellyfish in the Arctic Ocean lives for 1,000 years.
We would be – at some point – over 1,000 years old.
Older than the jellyfish in the Arctic Ocean.

Premiere 19.12.2025, 20:00 Uhr
weitere Aufführungen 20.12.2025, 17 und 20 Uhr

Konzeption & Inszenierung F. Wiesel (Jost von Harlessem, Hanke Wilsmann)
Musik, Performance, Mitarbeit Text Jacob Bussmann
Kostüm, Mitarbeit Bühne Hannah von Eiff
Produktionsleitung Heidrun Schlegel
Technische Unterstützung Philipp Kehder
Objektgestaltung Kerstin J. Holzer, Lejla Kehic, Bailan J. Kirchmair, Gabriele S. Schaffer-Adenin
Fotos: Jörg Baumann

Gefördert im Rahmen der Mehrjahresförderung des Kulturamtes der Stadt Frankfurt sowie dem Hessischen Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst.