Fünf Uhr morgens / П'ята ранку / الخامسة فجرا

A play between three languages by Lubna Abou Kheir and Ursina Greuel

"Five o'clock in the morning" is the story of personal retraumatization. What does it do to a person who has experienced expulsion and flight himself when he or she has to learn that for some people who are also fleeing war, other laws apparently apply?

The opening of borders and the labour market to people from Ukraine was a selective act of solidarity. Non-European asylum seekers have not received the same amount of support, they have been turned into second-class refugees. The author Lubna Abou Kheir came to Switzerland as an asylum seeker from Syria. In "Five O'Clock in the Morning" she traces the feelings she feels in the face of this unequal treatment. And he is frightened. Because she, who has so far actively campaigned for human rights, observes in herself an increasing unease about the treatment of an entire group – simply because of their origin. Where do these feelings come from? What happens to one's own values and beliefs during retraumatization in supposedly safe Switzerland?

Directed by Ursina Greuel, Lubna Abou Kheir meets the Ukrainian violinist Yulianna Khomenko. The audience is taken directly into the characters' worlds of experience. They talk and sing against and with each other. Music and lyrics, German, Arabic and Ukrainian combine until their languages and sounds combine to create a surprisingly new sound.