Mbene Mwambene

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The hero of your youth?
Heroes are overrated hence I didn’t have any. At first my teachers told me it was Jesus, but then I quickly quit when I realized that he was a white facade and couldn´t save himself from a couple of nails on a wooden stick. Of course after wine and grapes.

What is time?
Time is Godess.

Neumarkt means… to you?
I guess so far nothing. I have no deeper connections to the space and the people so the word meaning would be irrelevant.

In what do you believe?
In people, nature, humor, and human connections but mostly nothing. Perhaps a point of nothingness is all we need.

What books is on your bedside table?
Lernen aus dem Lockdown? and Nachbilder_Eine Foto Text Anthologie

What was the best present that you got from someone or you gave to someone?
My first birthday cake at the age of 30. It was prepared by my partner. I have never been into birthdays.

What do you want the world to know about you?
I think asking the world to something about me is a big challenge. I am an artist and but I don’t want the world to be told. I would rather the world see me and really see me. Whatever it decides, that is fine. The world can be wrong at times. The world in me knows much more than Mbene an artist.

Biografie
Mbene Mbunga Mwambene ist ein sambisch-malawischer Schauspieler, Journalist, Poet, Regisseur, Geschichtenerzähler und Tänzer mit Sitz in Bern, Schweiz. Er ist der erste Afrikaner, der “das Privileg erhielt” an der Hochschule der Künste Bern einen Master in Expanded Theater zu absolvieren. In 2011 erhielt er von Prof. Christoph Nix vom Theater Konstanz, Deutschland, den Auftrag, das Solostück The Story of a Tiger zu produzieren, welches er in verschiedenen Ländern in Afrika, Europa und Asien aufführte.
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Mbenes Arbeit konzentriert sich hauptsächlich auf postkoloniale Themen innerhalb und ausserhalb von Theaterprojekten. Sein berufliches Schauspielleben dreht sich um interaktives Theater für die Gemeinschaft. Neben Bühnenaufführungen gibt Mbene Workshops in Gefängnissen, Schulen, öffentlichen Plätzen sowie in Flüchtlingslagern in Afrika und Europa.