About us

209 is a suspended space. A room where you hide - alone or with others - permeable to the outside world. It's a frame for art. For film, theatre, performance, experimentation. A joyful jump in the unknown.

209 was created by a group of young idealists in 2014. Theater students at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg at the time, they regularly left their classical theater classes, held in room 203, to secretly rehearse a theater series in room 209. Phonetically, 209 can be heard in two ways, as the number, deux-cent-neuf, but also as de sang neuf, in English something like out of fresh blood. The name stuck, to signify a desire to create something new and find their own voice. It’s the need to speak out.

Mathilde Irrmann kept the name and continues to run artistic projects under that banner in Berlin. Since 2023, the company has partnered with Upcycling, a workshop space in Neukölln, where it offers a cultural program to give a stage to artists it wishes to promote.

"We all build ideologies from what we have. You see, if I write a book, I have to make myself believe that literature is the most important thing. If you are a journalist, you have to make yourself believe that this is what is going to change the world, that this is what is decisive for freedom, for democracy." [Edouard Louis for Mediapart, 2018]

Art is an utopia of the impossible. Irrational and unconditional. Between life and death a red thread.

An obsession. An idea that haunts you without explanation. A desire that screams. Each project grows out of this obsession without which nothing exists.

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Contact

Mathilde Irrmann
mathilde@cie209.com
+49 157 33697924

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