Like no other news programme, PPNews (Polit Puppet News) reports locally and subjectively. PPNews lets dogs, Barbie dolls and puppetted performers* talk about ARMADA OF ARTS. The three-part show is based on interview recordings of sound bites, analyses of blog entries and comments as well as spontaneous encounters on the topics of homelessness, security versus freedom and racism.

Especially in times of Corona, PPNews wants to report on the perspectives of those who are not considered “normal” or do not belong. And this is why PPNews looks back at those of us who consciously or unconsciously benefit from this social classification.

For DIE IRRITIERTE STADT, ARMADA OF ARTS is developing a new, locally based edition of the PPNews news show with human rights activist Katharina Kersten, author Anne Jelena Schulte, video artist David Campesino, puppeteers Gilda Coustier, Frieder Miller and Jonathan Strotbek, architect Federica Menegatti and set and costume designers Nora Schruth and Sarah Hoemske.

What are PPNews?

PPNews is a news show with puppets, which processes maximum local information independently and subjectively into news reports. The format was developed in Dresden for three very differently structured city districts as a hybrid of journalism and theatre. The show’s host, Mika Eni Bott, guides the audience through the show’s contributions in a deliberately sobering and unobjective manner.