Memorable anger and fantastic energy: Maria Aljochina is on stage with her colleagues from Pussy Riot in the Munich Kammerspiele. She fled to be heard. what she has to say
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Mareen Linnartz
Towards the end of her performance in the Munich Kammerspiele on Tuesday evening, Marija Alyokhina stands on the stage and looks at the audience with a steady gaze. She lowers her voice, takes a breath. She and her comrades-in-arms have already spent an hour, with an intensity that one will not forget: Alyokhina, as she storms forward with a yellow knitted mask and white dress and with hammering chants in front of film sequences that mainly show Vladimir Putin, reminds accuses, accuses. The singer Olga Borisova, formerly a police officer, picks up a plastic bottle and hurls water fountains into the heated atmosphere. Diana Burkat, who convinces on the keyboard as well as on the drums and whose singing is so pleading and urgent at the same time that it seems to resonate constantly. Anton Ponomarew, the saxophonist, takes a back seat.