NO PRISON

Theatre, concerts, films, discussions, the Festival Centre in prison: the former prison Rennelberg opens its doors to the public for the first time

A look inside a prison says a lot about a society and its injustices. Who is imprisoned and what for? During the Nazi regime, Rennelberg Prison was an instrument for breaking political resistance. Today, too, authoritarian states all over the world use prisons as ways to maintain their power. But in liberal societies too, people question whether prisons can really bring about justice. 

Theaterformen Festival will be opening the doors of Rennelberg Prison to the public for the first time and will interweave the history of the City of Braunschweig with the perspectives of international artists on injustice and state violence. New, site-specific performances by Harald Beharie, Nicoleta Esinencu / teatru-spălătorie, LASTESIS, Sonya Lindfors & Maryan Abdulkarim and Public Movement will be created especially for the festival.  

The Festival Centre will provide a space to debate, relax with a drink in the sun and dance in defiance of the violence of the architecture at the Silent Discos.

Rennelberg Prison, which is no longer a functioning prison, but has not yet been taken over by the investment sector, will open up as a space of possibility for a brief period. NO PRISON invites you to come together in this place of isolation and exclusion and to experience community and art in precisely such a place.