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Cultural cutbacks, the rise of the far right, financial crisis: what does it mean to earn a living as a musician in difficult times? And what role does solidarity play?

For many years the saxophonist, clarinetist and composer Silke Eberhard has left her mark on the Berlin jazz scene and has received great international acclaim. In 2020 she received the Jazzpreis Berlin in recognition of her achievements. She interacts with many people in the most diverse formations; her band Potsa Lotsa has grown into an imposing tentet in the XL lineup. She composes for small and large ensembles, contemporary music and jazz. In her wide-ranging work as a performer she also focuses on improvised encounters in dance, theatre and visual arts. Silke works with many collective ensembles, including the duo with Ulrich Gumpert, duo with Uwe Oberg + trio with Gerry Hemingway, Matsch & Schnee, Satchi (w Maike Hilbig & Yuko Oshima), I am Three. She performs and has recorded with numerous musicians of the international jazz scene such as Henry Threadgill & Zooid, Aki Takase, Nikolaus Neuser, David Liebman. Her work is documented on approximately 50 albums (CD/LP) on record labels such as Intakt, Jazzwerkstatt, Leo Records, ESP Disk.

Joy Frempong is a singer and composer who moves freely between the worlds of electro, jazz, experimental music, afrobeats and pop, with an affinity for storytelling. She has toured internationally for many years with the duo OY on stages large and small, and also composes music for animated films. Joy has lived in Berlin for 16 years. In 2022, she joined the Decolonoize collective, which is committed to increasing the visibility of the BIPoC community in Berlin's alternative music scene.

Rea Kurmann is an actress, producer, director, and co-founder of the association Kelipen
e.V., as well as a member of the Rom*nja Theatre Collective.
She works in film and television, including for NETFLIX, ARD, SAT 1, and ZDF, and performs with various ensembles.
The short film Goodbye, in which she played the lead role of Sara, was nominated for an Oscar in 2016.
Her focus is on telling stories in theatre and film that have not yet been told—stories that have been systematically excluded, erased, suppressed, or ignored. These are often lost, fragmented, and destroyed feminist narratives, stories whose existence was never shared, and which open up the possibility of experiencing human potential.
Her work revolves around reckoning, truthfulness, transformation, and the flourishing of strong Romnja and Sintizze artists in the performing arts.
The Rom*nja Theatre Collective stands for a complex, feminist, intersectional, diverse, and transgenerational form of storytelling—aimed at unfolding their own narratives in film, theatre, and literature.