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Männer rollen

Gender roles, craftsmanship and patriarchy

2026

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photo: Dominik Więcek

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photo: Dominik Więcek

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photo: Dominik Więcek

The MMK dance collective questions masculinities. What happens when we get two men rolling, and with them, symbolically, an entire system?

 

The image of masculinity that dancer and choreographer Mark Christoph Klee brings with him is shaped by his parents' electrical business and by his coming out as a young man. This time he's not performing with his usual trio, but with Leon Franzke, who trained as a bricklayer after studying dance. Both are marked by close contact with tradespeople: rough claps on the shoulder, coarse jokes, and bodies shaped by hard labor.

 

Out of these two male biographies, their queer and trans* perspectives, and their experiences of fatherhood and relationships emerges a look at expected and lived masculinity. The performers confront their own privileges and how deeply patriarchal structures are rooted within themselves. A dance piece in search of fragility and multilayered male roles.

Artistic Collaboration: Coralie Merle & Jasiek Mischke

Choreography & Performance: Mark Christoph Klee

Performance: Leon Franzke

Sparring partner: Torsten Schütte

Dramaturgy: Charlotte Mathiessen

Outside Eye: Elisabeth Bohde

Composition: Christopher Ramm

Light Design: Lars Kracht

Costumes: Dominik Więcek

Public Relations: Farina Jäger

Production Assistance: Juliane Hanssen

The preliminary research was supported by the Performing Arts Scholarship of the ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS. "Männer rollen" was created in co-production with the Theaterwerkstatt Pilkentafel Flensburg and was supported by the Ministry of General and Vocational Education, Science, Research and Culture of the State of Schleswig-Holstein, the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg – department for Culture and Media, the Fonds Darstellende Künste from funds of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media, the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung as well as the City of Flensburg and the City of Neumünster. Rehearsal residencies were made possible by the Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung Hohenlockstedt as part of "Zu Gast im M.1" (Guest at M.1) and by FigurenZauberei Großharrie. Sponsorship by Elektro Klee Netztechnik.

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