An audiovisual City Tour through two eras

In keeping with this year’s theme of the Rhineland-Palatinate Cultural Summer, “The Golden Twenties,” pad is presenting a guided tour of Mainz that uses audio commentary and video projections to bring the Mainz of the 1920s to life and contrast it with the present day. For this extraordinary city tour, the Mainz-based performance duo Schmitt&Schulz has not only researched facts about the history of the Weimar era but, above all, presents participants with personal, perhaps otherwise hidden stories, life stories, poetry, music, art, and culture from that time, thereby creating a comprehensive audiovisual experience.

During the roughly one-and-a-half-hour guided tour of various sites in Mainz’s Old Town, participants can expect, among other things, a frozen Rhine, a theater scandal, a woman who becomes a man, memories of persecution and war, hopeful visions of the future, and the open question of whether history is bound to repeat itself.

Termine:
3. / 4. / 5. / 10. / 11. / 17. / 18. / 19. September 2026.

Each event begins at 8:00 p.m. with a social gathering over drinks; the tour starts at 8:30 p.m. and ends at 10:00 p.m.

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Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/zweimal-zwanzig-4861486

A production by performance art depot as part of the Rhineland-Palatinate Cultural Summer

Dramaturgie/Recherche: Nic Schmitt

Stadtführung: Nic Schmitt

Musik, Sounds: Mo Walker

Performer: John Lang, Sisko Mader, Nic Schmitt, Peter Schulz

Videogestaltung: Mo Walker, Nic Schmitt

Audiobearbeitung: peter schulz

Sprecher:innen Zeitzeugentexte und Zitate

Joachim Beck
Julia Bollwerk
Oliver Hiller
Matthias Hoff
Juliane Janson
Sarah Leidorf
Katharina Robie
Inga Schefuss
peter schulz
Andrea Sesterheim

Sprecher-Coach: peter schulz