Yesterday we went for the premiere of Natacha de Pontcharra’s “Dancing” in the Ingolstadt theatre. They gave away tickets for free for us students and therefore you spotted more fellow students than you would usually do. I went there together with Rob and Daniel – girls are not that many up here right now, but it should change during the night.

But first the play: It is a very modern one about the working climate in our “new economy”. Demonstrating how cruel business life can play with everybody. The inspiration for this play came from a news article telling that an employee was made to dance at work’s lavatory that long that he died of a heart attack. Kind of suprise for me was that Bettina Schmidt, who has also played in the main role in “Das Maß der Dinge“, was on stage playing Hélène. This time playing the poor innocent girl, rather than the dominant girl, who was exploited on the one hand so badly by her superiors, but who showed on the other hand her colleague Babour how to dance for the first time. She strikes me because of her somehow completely chaotic character and her flashy alternative appearance . Furthermore, she comes also from the Ruhrgebiet, which you might guess when seeing her. “Dancing” runs on stage till May 28th – check it out!

Later on we enjoyed the Berlin nights in IN, which basicially means that there is no 4am closing hour. Nevertheless it brought some Prussian flair to this Bavarian city. Four girls came from Eichstaett, studying pedagogics and geography there, to join in – not too bad. We started in Swept Away and found us in the end in Diagonal, where we danced to some 70/80s music.