VITSCHE
@vitsche.bsky.social
The evening concludes with networking and informal discussion over drinks and refreshments.
Join us for this important dialogue on democracy, courage, and resilience.
Join us for this important dialogue on democracy, courage, and resilience.
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The evening concludes with networking and informal discussion over drinks and refreshments.
Join us for this important dialogue on democracy, courage, and resilience.
Join us for this important dialogue on democracy, courage, and resilience.
🎤 Part 2: 20:45 - 21:30
A panel discussion with Oleksandra Matviichuk, Michael Meyer and @rebharms.bsky.social, moderated by @mattian.bsky.social: Does democracy survive under martial law? What does post-war democracy look like? And what can Europe learn from Ukraine's experience?
A panel discussion with Oleksandra Matviichuk, Michael Meyer and @rebharms.bsky.social, moderated by @mattian.bsky.social: Does democracy survive under martial law? What does post-war democracy look like? And what can Europe learn from Ukraine's experience?
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🎤 Part 2: 20:45 - 21:30
A panel discussion with Oleksandra Matviichuk, Michael Meyer and @rebharms.bsky.social, moderated by @mattian.bsky.social: Does democracy survive under martial law? What does post-war democracy look like? And what can Europe learn from Ukraine's experience?
A panel discussion with Oleksandra Matviichuk, Michael Meyer and @rebharms.bsky.social, moderated by @mattian.bsky.social: Does democracy survive under martial law? What does post-war democracy look like? And what can Europe learn from Ukraine's experience?
🎤 Part 1: 19:30 - 20:30
A conversation between Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social and journalist Sabine Adler on justice in wartime, moral courage, and the unwavering strength of civil society that fights for justice even in the darkest hours.
A conversation between Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social and journalist Sabine Adler on justice in wartime, moral courage, and the unwavering strength of civil society that fights for justice even in the darkest hours.
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🎤 Part 1: 19:30 - 20:30
A conversation between Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social and journalist Sabine Adler on justice in wartime, moral courage, and the unwavering strength of civil society that fights for justice even in the darkest hours.
A conversation between Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social and journalist Sabine Adler on justice in wartime, moral courage, and the unwavering strength of civil society that fights for justice even in the darkest hours.
We're honored to invite you to a crucial conversation at the Berliner Ensemble featuring Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social, 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who will share insights from her work documenting war crimes and defending human rights in Ukraine.
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
We're honored to invite you to a crucial conversation at the Berliner Ensemble featuring Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social, 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who will share insights from her work documenting war crimes and defending human rights in Ukraine.
🎙Oksana Kis is a feminist historian and anthropologist, a head of the National Research Foundation of Ukraine and a President of the Ukrainian Association for Research in Women’s History.
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
🎙Oksana Kis is a feminist historian and anthropologist, a head of the National Research Foundation of Ukraine and a President of the Ukrainian Association for Research in Women’s History.
What meaning did creativity hold for women facing daily survival? And what can their handmade artifacts tell us about resilience and dignity under total oppression? The lecture draws on Oksana Kis’ award-winning book Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag (Harvard, 2021).
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
What meaning did creativity hold for women facing daily survival? And what can their handmade artifacts tell us about resilience and dignity under total oppression? The lecture draws on Oksana Kis’ award-winning book Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag (Harvard, 2021).
Between the 1940s and 1950s, thousands of Ukrainian women were imprisoned in the Gulag for real or alleged ties to the national anti-Soviet resistance. Despite hunger, violence, and dehumanizing conditions, they sang, wrote poetry, embroidered, and created art.
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Between the 1940s and 1950s, thousands of Ukrainian women were imprisoned in the Gulag for real or alleged ties to the national anti-Soviet resistance. Despite hunger, violence, and dehumanizing conditions, they sang, wrote poetry, embroidered, and created art.
🥖 This talk will be followed by a Q&A and a tasting of psatyr — a traditional North Azovian Greek bread recently added to Ukraine’s National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
🥖 This talk will be followed by a Q&A and a tasting of psatyr — a traditional North Azovian Greek bread recently added to Ukraine’s National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Olya Tsyprykova, co-founder and head of the North Azovian Greeks NGO, will shed light on the history and identity of the Urums and Roumeans — an indigenous community from the northern coast of the Sea of Azov in Ukraine, and how russia’s war endangers their cultural heritage.
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Olya Tsyprykova, co-founder and head of the North Azovian Greeks NGO, will shed light on the history and identity of the Urums and Roumeans — an indigenous community from the northern coast of the Sea of Azov in Ukraine, and how russia’s war endangers their cultural heritage.
Donetsk Oblast is often viewed through the prism of war and destruction, yet its cultural landscape is much deeper and more diverse.
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Donetsk Oblast is often viewed through the prism of war and destruction, yet its cultural landscape is much deeper and more diverse.
Das betrifft nicht nur die Ukraine. Es geht um Europas Sicherheit, Demokratie und Frieden – einen Frieden, der auf Gerechtigkeit, nicht auf Abhängigkeit beruht.
Kommt dazu! Steht für die Ukraine. Steht für Europa.
Kommt dazu! Steht für die Ukraine. Steht für Europa.
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Das betrifft nicht nur die Ukraine. Es geht um Europas Sicherheit, Demokratie und Frieden – einen Frieden, der auf Gerechtigkeit, nicht auf Abhängigkeit beruht.
Kommt dazu! Steht für die Ukraine. Steht für Europa.
Kommt dazu! Steht für die Ukraine. Steht für Europa.
3️⃣ Keine Importe von russischem Öl, Gas und LNG.
Deutsches und europäisches Geld finanziert weiterhin diesen Krieg. Energiepolitik ist Sicherheitspolitik – Schluss mit der Finanzierung des Aggressors.
Deutsches und europäisches Geld finanziert weiterhin diesen Krieg. Energiepolitik ist Sicherheitspolitik – Schluss mit der Finanzierung des Aggressors.
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
3️⃣ Keine Importe von russischem Öl, Gas und LNG.
Deutsches und europäisches Geld finanziert weiterhin diesen Krieg. Energiepolitik ist Sicherheitspolitik – Schluss mit der Finanzierung des Aggressors.
Deutsches und europäisches Geld finanziert weiterhin diesen Krieg. Energiepolitik ist Sicherheitspolitik – Schluss mit der Finanzierung des Aggressors.
2️⃣ Unterstützung für die ukrainische Energiesicherheit.
russische Angriffe richten sich gezielt gegen das Energienetz. Millionen Menschen leben wieder im Dunkeln. Die Ukraine braucht jetzt Transformatoren, mobile Heizsysteme und Mittel für dringende Reparaturen.
russische Angriffe richten sich gezielt gegen das Energienetz. Millionen Menschen leben wieder im Dunkeln. Die Ukraine braucht jetzt Transformatoren, mobile Heizsysteme und Mittel für dringende Reparaturen.
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
2️⃣ Unterstützung für die ukrainische Energiesicherheit.
russische Angriffe richten sich gezielt gegen das Energienetz. Millionen Menschen leben wieder im Dunkeln. Die Ukraine braucht jetzt Transformatoren, mobile Heizsysteme und Mittel für dringende Reparaturen.
russische Angriffe richten sich gezielt gegen das Energienetz. Millionen Menschen leben wieder im Dunkeln. Die Ukraine braucht jetzt Transformatoren, mobile Heizsysteme und Mittel für dringende Reparaturen.
Unsere Forderungen:
1️⃣ Luftverteidigungssysteme für die Ukraine.
russland bombardiert weiterhin Wohnhäuser, Kindergärten und Krankenhäuser. Ohne ausreichenden Schutz kostet jeder Tag Menschenleben.
1️⃣ Luftverteidigungssysteme für die Ukraine.
russland bombardiert weiterhin Wohnhäuser, Kindergärten und Krankenhäuser. Ohne ausreichenden Schutz kostet jeder Tag Menschenleben.
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Unsere Forderungen:
1️⃣ Luftverteidigungssysteme für die Ukraine.
russland bombardiert weiterhin Wohnhäuser, Kindergärten und Krankenhäuser. Ohne ausreichenden Schutz kostet jeder Tag Menschenleben.
1️⃣ Luftverteidigungssysteme für die Ukraine.
russland bombardiert weiterhin Wohnhäuser, Kindergärten und Krankenhäuser. Ohne ausreichenden Schutz kostet jeder Tag Menschenleben.
Artistic freedom matters. But so does responsibility.
That is why we have addressed an open letter to HAU Hebbel am Ufer, calling for ethical accountability.
📄 Read the full letter on our website: vitsche.org/news/an-open...
That is why we have addressed an open letter to HAU Hebbel am Ufer, calling for ethical accountability.
📄 Read the full letter on our website: vitsche.org/news/an-open...
An Open Letter to the Management and Leadership of HAU Hebbel am Ufer, concerning the series of performances “Museum of Uncounted Voices” by Marina Davydova (2–11 November 2025)
We, the Berlin-based NGO Vitsche e.V., whose mission is to counteract russian propaganda and amplify Ukrainian voices across Europe, write to express our deep concern regarding the return of the perfo...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Artistic freedom matters. But so does responsibility.
That is why we have addressed an open letter to HAU Hebbel am Ufer, calling for ethical accountability.
📄 Read the full letter on our website: vitsche.org/news/an-open...
That is why we have addressed an open letter to HAU Hebbel am Ufer, calling for ethical accountability.
📄 Read the full letter on our website: vitsche.org/news/an-open...
Without critical framing, such works blur the line between aggressor and victim, turning ongoing violence into abstract theatre and reinforcing imperial mindsets.
October 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Without critical framing, such works blur the line between aggressor and victim, turning ongoing violence into abstract theatre and reinforcing imperial mindsets.
In a “short opera,” all characters sing “We are the main victims,” portraying their pain through a colonial gaze, reducing their struggles to a caricature.
By speaking for these nations instead of with them, Davydova recentres the russian gaze and erases the very voices she claims to represent.
By speaking for these nations instead of with them, Davydova recentres the russian gaze and erases the very voices she claims to represent.
October 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
In a “short opera,” all characters sing “We are the main victims,” portraying their pain through a colonial gaze, reducing their struggles to a caricature.
By speaking for these nations instead of with them, Davydova recentres the russian gaze and erases the very voices she claims to represent.
By speaking for these nations instead of with them, Davydova recentres the russian gaze and erases the very voices she claims to represent.
She stages fictional dialogues between these nations, portraying them as quarrelling over “who suffered more,” as if their histories of violence and colonisation were interchangeable.
October 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
She stages fictional dialogues between these nations, portraying them as quarrelling over “who suffered more,” as if their histories of violence and colonisation were interchangeable.
Why This Is Inappropriate
2. Appropriation of Colonised Voices
In the following scenes, Davydova assumes the authority to speak on behalf of five nations historically oppressed by the russian and Soviet empires – Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.
2. Appropriation of Colonised Voices
In the following scenes, Davydova assumes the authority to speak on behalf of five nations historically oppressed by the russian and Soviet empires – Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.
October 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Why This Is Inappropriate
2. Appropriation of Colonised Voices
In the following scenes, Davydova assumes the authority to speak on behalf of five nations historically oppressed by the russian and Soviet empires – Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.
2. Appropriation of Colonised Voices
In the following scenes, Davydova assumes the authority to speak on behalf of five nations historically oppressed by the russian and Soviet empires – Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.
Why This Is Inappropriate
1. Irony That Reinforces Propaganda
Davydova turns her stage into a pseudo-museum of “russian greatness,” where imperial pride merges with propaganda – including claims that Ukraine’s annexed territories “voluntarily joined.”
1. Irony That Reinforces Propaganda
Davydova turns her stage into a pseudo-museum of “russian greatness,” where imperial pride merges with propaganda – including claims that Ukraine’s annexed territories “voluntarily joined.”
October 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Why This Is Inappropriate
1. Irony That Reinforces Propaganda
Davydova turns her stage into a pseudo-museum of “russian greatness,” where imperial pride merges with propaganda – including claims that Ukraine’s annexed territories “voluntarily joined.”
1. Irony That Reinforces Propaganda
Davydova turns her stage into a pseudo-museum of “russian greatness,” where imperial pride merges with propaganda – including claims that Ukraine’s annexed territories “voluntarily joined.”
This November, Berlin’s theatre HAU Hebbel am Ufer plans to host Davydova’s play “Museum of Uncounted Voices”(2–11 November 2025). By giving her this platform, HAU risks legitimising russian propaganda and its colonial views.
October 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This November, Berlin’s theatre HAU Hebbel am Ufer plans to host Davydova’s play “Museum of Uncounted Voices”(2–11 November 2025). By giving her this platform, HAU risks legitimising russian propaganda and its colonial views.