Imagine summer in the neighbourhood and being far away at the same time – this mixture will bring the STORY OASE FESTIVAL to Berlin for the first time in September 2023. With a summer drink in hand and Berlin as the backdrop, it’s a wonderful way to dream away, when 15 international and local storytelling artists will perform their stories from all over the world. The stories will be told in German and English, with Spanish, Turkish and Lithuanian elements. With their freely told stories, the storyteller create completely new worlds in the minds of the listeners. With one foot in the stories, the other in the here & now. Only through language, voice expressions and gestures the images come to life. We also call storytelling „cinema for the poor” because it needs neither stage sets nor props or technology to stimulate the audience’s imagination. No prefabricated images control the audience’s imagination, but the stories become vivid and alive IN the audience THROUGH the art of the storytellers.

Between Identities, Peru, Germany, and everything in between. When you grow up between two continents, two cultures, two languages, two worlds apart - What place do you call home? And is that really a geographical place? Johanna Wollin weaves her own search for identity and traditional folk tales from South America to a journey between cherries and currants, jasmine and eucalyptus, Alps and Andes, between being at home and being a stranger.