Wo steht dein Maulbeerbaum?

"Once you have left your own country, you never arrive in a new one. Then only some special people become your country." This is how the writer Emine Sevgi Özdamar once described the emotional situation of emigrants in Europe. People leave their homeland because they hope for a better life elsewhere. But once there, they are far from having arrived: in search of recognition, opportunities, a piece of new identity. They are people who have cut their roots without growing strong new ones. The play Wo steht dein Maulbeerbaum? (Where is your mulberry tree? – About leaving and not yet arriving) by the young theatre-maker Tamó Gvenetadze tells of the perhaps utopian ideas of the emigrants that drive these people to Europe – and how they are destroyed here. Whether it is the hope of the Georgian rock band Soft Eject, which sought a new musical home in Berlin and Bochum in the 1990s, or the experiences of young people who come here today as war refugees or au pairs. "It's warm in Europe." "In Europe I will be fine." "In Europe I can become anything." "In Europe, dreams come true." It is possible to see your own dreams come true in Europe. But the question is: what is the price? The price is very high. An performance about the experiences of immigrants in Europe – honest, personal, full of anger and longing.