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My translation of Bambiland is on the move!

On Saturday, March 23rd, 2024, Berlin’s Tatwerk will host director Peter Lorenz and actress  Jelena Bašić

 as they bring their brilliant rendering of this Nobel Laureate Elfriede Jelinek’s “Bambiland” to life (and in living color) to the stage in my translation.

What’s the big deal?

War. Doesn’t it go without saying? Maybe not.

In any case, here’s what’s at stake. Today.


Director Peter Lorenz and performer Jelena Bašić dismantle the global media-war-machinery in the text of Nobel-prize winner Elfriede Jelinek (translated by Lillian M. Banks) as accounts of the Iraq war collapse into personal memories of a child refugee during the Bosnian war. In piles of human detritus, memories and plastic toys, the distinction between appearances and reality is difficult which makes Jelinek’s acute war criticism frighteningly up-to-date. With the help of live video, the performer reclaims her agency in the global cycles of destruction and reconstruction.


The frontline in the war of words between ‘us’ and ‘them’ starts to blur as accounts of Middle Eastern deserts and the siege of Sarajevo bleed into each other. The violent act of representation is played back to us on video and we find ourselves in the middle of this toy battle.

It all comes back round, especially the wars.

The Berlin performance at Tatwerk, which is followed by an artist talkback:

TATWERK Berlin (Hasenheide 9, Gewerbehof, 2^nd backyard, staircase 1, 3^rd floor)

donation-based entrance & followed by an artist talkback


Is a preview of the performance slated for August at the Edingburgh Fringe Festival.