我們是能夠追憶的幸存者｜新書分享會招募

我們是能夠追憶的幸存者

——《單讀 42》上海新書分享會

如果地球存在的時長被壓縮為一天，凌晨 4 點出現了單細胞生物，晚上 8 點半，多細胞生物開始繁衍，恐龍統治地球的時間大約在 22:46—23:39，而人類在接近午夜時才正式登場。

但對人類來說，時間已經足夠漫長。漫長到我們只有借助歌謠、器物、書簡，才能對先人的生活有所想象。他們是“死去的朋友們”，我們是能夠追憶的幸存者。

瑞士劇作家阿麗亞娜·科赫（Ariane Koch）做了一個更大膽的嘗試，她試著去追憶“恐龍”。在劇作《死去的朋友們》（恐龍們的獨白）中，她讓恐龍唱起古老的民歌，說自己經歷過的歷史，發出它們對時間、生命的喟嘆……甚至為后來統治地球的白樺樹留下了一份史料。

是多么陌生又熟悉的體驗啊，追憶“恐龍”。阿麗亞娜·科赫讓我們長出頭冠、甲殼、爪子，卻比任何時候都清晰地體驗了孤獨、虛無、憤怒、恐懼……

4 月 29 日（周三）19:00，阿麗亞娜·科赫將與戲劇創作者呂雨舟、《死去的朋友們》譯者王雨寬一起來到德國駐上海總領事館文化教育處，從這部劇作出發，聊聊我們如何看待一個生命的生死和文明的變遷，以及當我們是某種意義上的幸存者時，如何去追憶、寫作。

該活動得到瑞士文化基金會上海辦公室、 北京德國文化中心·歌德學院（中國）和 德國駐上海總領事館文化教育處 的支持。

時間：

4 月 29 日（周三）

19:00—21:00

地點：

德國駐上海總領事館文化教育處

上海市黃浦區福州路 318 號浦匯大廈 101

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嘉賓：

阿麗亞娜·科赫 × 呂雨舟 × 王雨寬

翻譯：

鄔晨云

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Public Forum in Shanghai

Theme:We Are Survivors Who Can Bear Witness Through Memory

Imagine a world vastly different from our own—one not dominated by humans. In this world, dinosaurs never went extinct; instead, they survived for eons, eventually developing thoughts and language. To them, humans are simply "a certain type of creature" .

If the history of Earth were compressed into a single day, single-celled organisms would appear at 4:00 AM. By 8:30 PM, multicellular life would begin to flourish. Dinosaurs would rule the Earth from approximately 10:46 PM to 11:39 PM, while humans would only make their debut as midnight approaches.

Yet, for humanity, this brief moment has felt long enough—so long that we can only imagine the lives of our ancestors through songs, artifacts, and ancient scrolls. They are our 'dead friends'; we are the survivors who carry their memory.

Swiss playwright Ariane Koch has taken an even bolder step by attempting to 'remember' the dinosaurs. In her play Dead Friends (Dinosaur Monologues), she has dinosaurs sing ancient folk songs, recount their own histories, and voice their sighs over time and life... they even leave behind historical records for the birch trees that would later dominate the planet.

What a strange yet familiar experience it is to remember 'dinosaurs'. Ariane Koch makes us grow crests, shells, and claws, yet through this time- travel journey, we experience loneliness, nothingness, anger, and fear more vividly than ever before.

On Wednesday, April 29th, Ariane Koch, along with theater creator Selena Lu and Dead Friends translator Wang Yukuan, will visit the Department of Culture and Education of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Shanghai. Starting from this play, they will discuss how we perceive life, death, and the evolution of civilization, and how we—as survivors in a sense—approach remembrance and writing.

This event is supported by Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia Shanghai, Goethe-Institut Beijing, and the Department of Culture and Education of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Shanghai.

Time:

April 29th (Wed.) 19:00-21:00

Location:

The Department of Culture and Education of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Shanghai

(ROUTE DIRECTIONS)

Guests:

Ariane Koch、Selena Lu、Wang Yukuan

Translator:

Wu Chenyun

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For readers who are unable to attend in person,

please click the link to watch the live stream.

劇本《死去的朋友們》（恐龍們的獨白）完整收錄于

《單讀 42·當代劇作選 II——世界早就瘋了》

本書所收錄的四部劇作均選自柏林戲劇節“劇本市場”及其在中國衍生的“重 JU 計劃”

The Dead Friends (Dinosaur Monologues) 【Die toten Freunde (Dinosauriermonologe)】 is included in

The 42th issue of One-way Street Journal

Contemporary Plays II–The World Has Gone Mad

The four plays included in this book were all selected from Theatertreffen Stückemarkt and Reju-plan in China.

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嘉賓介紹

Bio of Guests

(C) Pati Grabowicz.

阿麗亞娜·科赫（Ariane Koch）

1988 年出生于瑞士巴塞爾，學習純藝與跨學科創作。她創作戲劇與表演藝術文本、廣播劇及小說。憑借首部長篇小說《逾越》（Die Aufdr?ngung），她于 2022 年斬獲瑞士文學獎。2022/23 演出季，阿麗亞娜擔任巴塞爾劇院駐院作家，期間創作了戲劇作品《病狗》（Kranke Hunde），該作于 2024 年入圍“文本與語言”文學獎，并結集出版。目前她正參與伯爾尼藝術大學的文學-科學研究項目“自傳式虛構與意識”（Autofiktion und Bewusstsein），持續拓展其獨特而前沿的寫作實踐。

Ariane Koch, born in Basel in 1988, studied Fine Arts and Interdisciplinarity. She writes theatre and performance texts, radio plays and prose. For her debut novel Die Aufdr?ngung (Overstaying), she received the ZDF “aspekte” literature prize in 2021 and won a Swiss Literature Award in 2022. During the 2022/23 season, Ariane Koch was resident writer at Theater Basel. In this capacity, she wrote the play Kranke Hunde(Sick Dogs), which was nominated for the “Text & Sprache” literature prize in 2024 and was published as a book. Currently, Ariane Koch is part of the literary-scientific SNF research project Autofiktion und Bewusstsein (Autofiction and Consciousness) at the Bern University of the Arts.

呂雨舟（Selena Lu）

獨立劇場創作者，老妖精 ensemble 聯合創始?，Birdie 戲劇教育留學平臺創始?。長期實踐集體創作和紀錄劇場，常在工作中使用“真實素材”（口述、紀實影像、流文本等）與“文學隱喻”雜糅，與素人/表演者開展工作坊。作品曾受赫爾辛基藝 術節、挪威 IbsenAwards、London Dash Arts、烏鎮戲劇節、北京南鑼鼓巷戲劇節、上海明當代美術館、上海當代藝術博物館、上海話劇藝術中心、上海當代舞蹈 中心等機構邀演或委約；作為藝術家 Fellow 入選參與柏林戲劇節國際論壇、漢諾威國際戲劇節、臺北藝術節等研討會。

Selena Lu is Independent theatre maker, director and teacher, co-founder of _ao_ao_ing ensemble, founder of Birdie Theatre Education Network.

Trained with socio-psychological imagination, Selena has always seen theatre-makingas an action or gesture: to research, to connect and to heal. Her documentary works focus on finding alternative narratives for communities “endangered by a social accident": hosting a graduation ceremony for students exiled from a bankrupt diploma mill (“The Way to Walden”, 2014-18), verbatim silenced significant others of MH370(“Quiet”, 2016), or dissecting her own family's hospice practice in an age of medical overuse (“RIP Papa”, 2021).

In 2018, Selena co-founded all-female ensemble_ao_ao_ing (老妖精) practicing“the art of being together”._ao_ao_ing is a decentralised yet tight-knit group. Together they created some extravagant works: a 100m-dragon-parade for a modernised village, an audio tour in a to-be-gentrified district, a drag show on the road, a grandauction for their local vendor's unsalable goods after lockdown in a museum next to Christie's. Their performances often intertwine with the place and people they encounter, flirt with the line between theatre and everyday life and create real happenings that cannot be replicated. Selena received education from Cambridge and East 15, and her/their works have been generously supported by the International Ibsen Awards, Goethe-Institut, Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM) in Shanghai, Power Station of Art, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre, Nanluoguxiang Performing Arts Festival, Helsinki Festival and more.

王雨寬（Wang Yukuan）

自由譯者，戲劇愛好者。譯作有：《散步》（羅伯特·瓦爾澤）、《一億億億字節人生》（奧利維亞·文策爾）、《動物之名》（萊昂·恩格勒）、《死去的朋友們》（阿麗亞娜·科赫）。

Wang Yukuan is freelance translator and theater enthusiast. Her translations include "Der Spaziergang" by Robert Walser, "1 yottabyte leben" by Olivia Wenzel, "Die Benennung der Tiere" by Leon Engler, and "Die toten Freunde" by Ariane Koch.

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瑞士文化基金會致力于在國內外推廣瑞士當代文化藝術。基金會于 1939 年由瑞士政府成立，其上海辦公室于 2010 年成立，旨在支持中瑞兩國藝術家與機構間的合作與交流，通過開展項目促進兩國在文化領域內知識與經驗的分享。目前，瑞士文化基金會上海辦公室開展的項目主要集中在瑞士當代藝術，其中包括視覺藝術、表演藝術、設計、音樂、文學等眾多領域。

About Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council

Pro Helvetia supports artists and cultural practitioners from Switzerland and is committed to international cultural exchange. Pro Helvetia Shanghai is founded in 2010 and represents the Swiss Arts Council in China. Its aim is to encourage dialogue between Swiss and Chinese cultural practitioners and institutions by supporting projects that enhance the exchange of knowledge and experience in the cultural field.

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歌德學院是德意志聯邦共和國在世界范圍內從事文化交流活動的文化機構。1988 年，歌德學院北京分院作為第一家外國文化中心在中國成立。自建院以來，我們一方面致力于德語在中國的傳播與運用，另一方面積極廣泛地從事德中兩國在文化領域內的交流與合作。我們根植于開放的德國社會和德國文化土壤，借助于我們所擁有的跨國文化方面的專業力量，多年來與中方合作伙伴在音樂、戲劇、舞蹈、電影、藝術、建筑等眾多領域內組織了大量的文化活動。

Goethe-Institut China

The Goethe-Institut is the cultural institution of the Federal Republic of Germany, operating worldwide. When the Goethe-Institut Beijing was established on 1 November 1988, it was the first foreign cultural centre in the PRC. From the beginning, it devoted itself to the promotion of the use of the German language, to provide access to knowledge and information about Germany, and to cooperate with Chinese partners in various cultural fields such as music, dance, theater, film, visual arts and architecture.

德國駐上海總領事館文化教育處是歌德學院的關聯機構，旨在讓全世界的人與人相聯，搭建文化交流的橋梁。作為聯邦德國的文化機構，積極促進文化交流、教育發展，在國際化的背景下促進社會探討，并大力支持德語語言的教與學。與合作伙伴一起，德領館文教處共同觀察著全球發展的機遇和挑戰，致力于在不同的角度之間開啟充滿信任的溝通。文教處將傾聽與反思視為彼此相互理解的關鍵，開放包容、多元文化與可持續發展成為其堅守的價值觀，并深刻指導各項工作及實踐方式。

The Department of Culture and Education of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Shanghai is an associated presence of the Goethe-Institut.

We connect people worldwide. As the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany, we promote cultural exchange, education and social discourse in an international context and support the teaching and learning of the German language. Together with our partners, we focus on global opportunities and challenges and bring different perspectives into a dialogue based on mutual trust. We see listening and reflection as the key to understanding. We are committed to the principles of openness, diversity and sustainability. These principles shape our offers and working practices.