neighborhood kitchen

neighborhood kitchen

neighborhood kitchen

neighborhood kitchen

neighborhood kitchen

neighborhood kitchen

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© Admassu Kobolcha, Eleonora L. Herder and Lara-Marie Weine

neighborhood kitchen

What if food were as much a part of the city as libraries or theaters? If culture is publicly funded, why not food? Perhaps we first need to understand food as an art form to make it accessible to everyone. The neighborhood kitchen project by andpartnersincrime transforms cooking into theater and eating into an act of communal care.

09.08.2026 Opening of the neighborhood kitchen in Riederwald

September 17, 2026 Opening of the community kitchen in the Mousonturm as part of the 'How to make a Life' festival

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The new Frankfurt community kitchen sees itself as an assertion of a different reality. Cooking becomes a performance, eating together a political practice. Instead of spectators, there are participants. It's a drama without a script, but with a recipe, and it unfolds differently every day.

The project's starting point is a structural imbalance: Food prices have risen by 30 percent since 2022, and one in four children in Germany lacks access to a balanced diet. The care work surrounding food remains invisible, isolated, and largely privatized: everyone is looking out for themselves, preferably without looking beyond their own plate. At the same time, we are witnessing how the kitchen is being declared an ideological battleground by the so-called "new" right, where the ideal of Traditional Wife The traditional housewife, solely responsible for household chores, nutrition, and caregiving, is romanticized and promoted. Social media reproduces and reinforces traditional and normative gender roles, while increasingly obscuring the structural causes of social inequality and food insecurity.

We need a rethinking of community, resources, and public space. We need a solidarity-based, feminist perspective on food and care work. As andpartnersincrime, we believe in the power of theater not to depict what is, but to assert and experience what could be possible: a community kitchen based on solidarity in every neighborhood. Food for all in Frankfurt.

Our idea draws on historical utopias of solidarity-based food security: while Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky's famous Frankfurt Kitchen still attempted to achieve women's emancipation by optimizing the individual housewife's work processes, thousands of unemployed people were already cooking for each other daily in Frankfurt's communal kitchen in the 1920s. At the same time, Lily Braun's communal kitchen houses were being built in Vienna, where food was conceived as a central infrastructure of living. And after the military coup in Chile in 1973, the Commons to places of resistance against an authoritarian neoliberal regime and of mutual support. Our practice connects to these historical attempts at kitchen rebellion: once in the historic working-class district of Riederwald and once in an established Frankfurt art institution – the Mousonturm artists' house.

Between the August 9th and September 5th, 2026 In Riederwald, we claim to be a laboratory of social imagination and thereby make it concrete. A professional kitchen designed and built by the Designer collective YRD.Works In the middle of a public square, a new reality emerges: suddenly, the utopia of a caring city is there. The square becomes a stage, a kitchen, and an institution. Cooking is done primarily with rescued food; pots come from partner community kitchens, and plates are secondhand. The fabrics for the aprons are printed with the feminist slogans of our predecessors.

While the kitchen is operating, artistic work also takes place: rehearsals, singing, discussions, and organization. We are also planning two discussion events with invited speakers from the fields of art, science, and activism, who will discuss food justice and designs for collective infrastructures of provision.

August 21, 2026, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Kitchen Debate #1: PRODUCTION


Critical insights into agricultural food production and sustainable alternatives.

With contributions from, among others,. Paula Gioia (La Via Campesina), Margarethe Hinterlang (Bionales), as well as representatives of the Young AbL North Hesse.

August 22, 2026, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM – Kitchen Debate#2: SUPPLY AND DEMAND

Focus on food justice: Who benefits from the food industry and who loses out?

With contributions from, among others,. Xenia Waporidis (Ruhr University Bochum), Jan-Felix Thon (Ko-La Leipzig) and António Fernandes Coelho.

September 27, 2026 – Kitchen Debate #3: KITCHEN Uprising

 What happens when care work is at the center of a society?

Posts to be continued.

October 4th, 2026 – Kitchen Debate #4: GREAT LOCAL KÜFA SUMMIT


Alternative concepts for community catering. Networking event for all those active in solidarity-based community catering.

The Frankfurt Community Kitchen project concludes with a gathering of solidarity-based and community-led food initiatives. The summit provides a space for exchange, networking, and the development of shared perspectives for a sustainable food infrastructure.

Posts to be continued.

Artistic Director: Eleonora Lela Herder/andpartnersincrime
Interior design: Yacin Boudalfa, Ruben Fischer and David Bausch of YRD.Works
Graphic design and costume: Anna Sukhova & Kathrin Baumgartner
Musical direction & sound design: Jonas Harksen
Performer: Anna Stiede
Whisk costume: Anna Berger
Community kitchen chefs: Felix Bröcker, Hugh Aldersson (Food thats left), Laila El Bouattaoun, Matthias Schmidt, Susanne Simpert (Sue's Kitchen), Naziha Majouti and Tigist Yosef, Lucie Nienburg
Production management and organizational support: Benjamin Bay / Martin Heise
Public relations: Chiara Marcassa
Community management: Magdalena Eßer
Content consultation and discussion program: Anna Verwey, Alexis Passadakis, Prof. Dr. Dominik Gager, Leon Joskowitz, Nepomuck Bendukat
Initiative for a neighborhood kitchen in Riederwald: Catherine Béroud, Fariba Abdolhosseini, Inge Wendel, Lisa Weimer, Naziha Majouti, Sonja Roos and Tigist Yosef.

Supported by the Alliance for Solidarity-Based Community Catering in Frankfurt:

ada_kantine; Café Prekarissimo – Working Group for Social Participation, Against Poverty and Stigmatization, Christians4Future Rhein-Main; Development Policy Network Hesse e.V.; A City for All! Frankfurt; Frankfurt Food Council; Cafeteria of Tomorrow; Food that's left; FoodCoop KlaaKarott; Fridays for Future Frankfurt am Main; Friday Kitchen Frankfurt, Community Kitchen Heusenstamm, Common Good Economy Regional Group Frankfurt; GemüseBande Frankfurt GbR; Gemüseheldinnen Frankfurt; Greenpeace Frankfurt; Initiative for a Neighborhood Kitchen in Riederwald; Eckenheim Green Belt Initiative; Rhein-Main Unconditional Basic Income Initiative Group; Neighborhood Kitchen Campaign Working Group (The Left Party Frankfurt); Klimaattac – Attac Frankfurt; Frankfurt Climate Referendum; Riedberg Climate Protection Initiative e.V.; Koala Collective; Ikonomo; Friends of Nature Frankfurt; Open House of Cultures e.V.; People for Future Frankfurt am Main; ShoutOutLoud – Changing the World Step by Step e.V.; Solidarisches Gallus; Özgür Düzel from Stützende Hände eV; Sue's Kitchen; Tortuga Eschersheim eV; transit eV; Transition Town Frankfurt/Main eV; turtuga – changemaker community; Umwelt-Exploratorium eV; ÜBRIGens Lecker Oberursel.

A project by andpartnersincrime as part of WDC 2026. WDC 2026 is funded by the State of Hesse, the City of Frankfurt am Main and the Frankfurt Rhine-Main Cultural Fund.

Funded by the Performing Arts Fund with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Frankfurt Rhine-Main Cultural Fund, the Department for Climate, Environment and Women of the City of Frankfurt, and the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt. In co-production with Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm and in cooperation with YRD.Works. Managed by FöDaKü Hessen eV. The research, academic support, and documentation of this project were made possible by funding from the Hans Sauer Foundation. 

„New Frankfurt Neighborhood Kitchen“, a project by andpartnersincrime in co-production with Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, is part of „How to make a life“, funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and funded by the Frankfurt Rhine-Main Cultural Fund, the Aventis Foundation as part of the Trust Promotion program, World Design Capital Frankfurt Rhine-Main 2026, the Neighbourhood Fund of the Crespo Foundation and Goethe-Institut Peking.

You can find all the latest information and dates here: www.frankfurter-stadtteilkueche.org

Riederwald neighborhood kitchen

LOCATION: Square in front of St. Philip's Church, Raiffeisenstrasse 70-72, 60386 Frankfurt

• Sunday, August 9, 2026, 10:00 am cooking together and 1:00 pm Grand Opening of the Riederwald Community Kitchen
• Between August 9th and September 5th, kitchen open every Thursday to Saturday, cooking together from 10:00 AM, food for everyone from 1:00 PM!
• Friday, August 21 and Saturday, August 22, 2026, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. – “Kitchen Debate” Discussion formats and presentations with invited speakers
• Saturday, September 5, 2026 – 1:00 PM Closing dinner with concert

Mousonturm neighborhood kitchen:

LOCATION: Waldschmidtstr. 4, 60316 Frankfurt am Main

• Thursday, September 17, 2026, 10:00 a.m.: Cooking together. 1:00 p.m. – Grand Opening of the Mousonturm Community Kitchen
• Between September 17th and October 9th, kitchen open Wednesdays to Sundays. Cooking together starts at 10:00 AM, and food is served for everyone from 1:00 PM!
• Sunday, September 27, 2026, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. – “Kitchen Debate” Discussion formats and presentations with invited speakers
• Sunday, October 4, 2026 – Kitchen Debate & Great Local Kitchen Summit (Closing Event)

We welcome anyone who wants to help rescue food, chop, cook, decorate the space, and much more. Joining is possible at any time.

If you would like to participate, please contact: mitmachen@frankfurter-stadtteilkueche.org

Here you can join our Telegram channel dial in.

Elena Polzer has worked as a freelance producer and translator (German-English-Japanese) with a wide range of dance and theater artists since 2001. She is one of the founders of ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro, a platform for independent performing arts, and for many years supported the work of Berlin-based choreographer Christoph Winkler and the puppet theater group Das Helmi, among others. Her own work as a curator, performer, and dramaturge, in collaboration with artists such as Zwoisy Mears-Clarke, Olivia Hyunsin Kim, and Sheena McGrandles, revolves around themes such as collectivity, feminism, nonviolent communication, the significance of craftsmanship, textiles, ritual, and magic. Since 2023, she has also worked closely with andpartnersincrime.

Projects with andpartnersincrime:

AFTER DEMOCRACY

On the discomfort of Living

For those who do not belong – Movements along the Unfathomable PiratixUtopia (Audiowalk)

© Diana Djeddi during the coffee trip 'To our right the land'‚

Diana Djeddi works interdisciplinarily at the intersection of design, community, and cultural mediation in Frankfurt am Main. She studied design at Mathildenhöhe/Darmstadt, graduated under Barbara Klemm, and initially worked as a photojournalist. 

She sees herself as a purposeful networker and believes in the power of archives. She received a research grant from VG Bild-Kunst for her work on the mass dissemination of protest images related to the Iranian uprising on social media.

As a community manager, she brought together social entrepreneurs, start-up founders, artists and historians in Villa Gründergeist, a co-working space, and developed participatory formats.

She is currently a scholarship recipient of the Polytechnic Society and is researching as a local historian the exile period of Hedwig Michel, the head of the Jewish Cultural Association, who went into exile in Florida from Frankfurt.

© Diana Djeddi

Teresa Riemann (*1988 Dachau) is a Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist, poet and performance artist who began learning the piano at the age of 6, left classical training at the age of 16 and began to explore different instruments on her own: guitar, cello and, since 2012, drums.
Since then, she has developed her own unique style of convulsive percussion. She accompanies her drumming with the eclectic use of her fragmented voice and spontaneously recites fragments from humankind's living memory.
In addition to her intensive noise drumming solo project, she also performs a solo piano project (A tender kiss into the void) and plays in the groups TRAS (Asja Skrinik – electronics & vocals; Teresa Riemann – drums & vocals), Shake the Train (Damien Jaroszonek – modular synthesizers; Lukas Huerta-Rueckner – trumpet, harmonica, vocals; Teresa Riemann – drums, vocals) and Naked in the Zoo (Ruben Tenenbaum – violin; Teresa Riemann – drums, vocals). https://teresariemann.com/ 

Aside from her musical work, she works in the field of disturbing performance art, dance and experimental theater.

Projects with andpartnersincrime

To our right the country – A coffee trip by andpartnersincrime

© Julia Novacek

Shahrzad Osterer

Journalist, presenter and speaker

Shahrzad Osterer was born in Tehran in 1984, in the midst of the Iran-Iraq War. At 19, she decided to leave her homeland. For 10 years, Osterer has worked for various Bavarian Broadcasting formats, including on the editorial team for the BR program "Messages of Refugees," as a writer for Zündfunk magazine, and for the sociopolitical program "Zündfunk-Generator." She hosted her own empowerment podcast on BR and is currently a moderator for BR's new diversity project "Workin' Germany" and writes for several print media outlets.

Projects with andpartnersincrime:

• Are you there? Frankfurt/Tehran
• After the end of the meeting (2020)

Contact: www.br.de

© Diana Djeddi

Anna Stiede is a performer, presenter, political scientist, political communication artist, and Italian-German translator (among others for the Istoreco Institute in Reggio Emilia). The fact that she was born in a country that simply no longer exists on the map—the GDR—has stayed with her constantly. Her topics include the histories of social movements, reproductive economics, and communication. Since 2019, she has worked with the independent theater collective "Panzerkreuzer Rotkäppchen" and has toured with the Meckerchor as ANNAMEDEA. Stiede is a co-founder of the Women's Association of Political Scientists.

Projects with andpartnersincrime

To our right the country – A coffee trip by andpartnersincrime

Martin Heise is a self-important smart aleck and has instead worked as a technical assistant for, among others, the performance collective SIGNA; setting up art exhibitions, theater and music festivals, as well as productions of the Berlin Festival.

Projects with andpartnersincrime:

ON THE UNCOMFORT OF LIVING – A STAGE PLAY (2025)

TO THE RIGHT OF US THE LAND (2025)

Nepomuck (Inga) Bendukat  is a theater scholar, freelance dramaturge, and activist. Since 2023, Nepomuck has directed Bendukat together with Eleonora Herder andpartnersincrime. Nepomuck is currently working on his dissertation: "The Search for Queertopia. Of Potential, But Porous Theater Venues. (Situative Working Title)." In this dissertation, Nepomuck works from an anarchist, queer-feminist perspective on the destruction of ideologies and inquires into a theater of de-subjugation (Foucault), resistance, and solidarity-based practice. Nepomuck has taught at the Department of Theater Studies at the University of Frankfurt am Main and at the Institute for Theater Studies at the University of Vienna. In 2024, Nepomuck, together with Fanti Baum, created the audio walk for those who do not belong – Movements along the incomprehensible / PiratixUtopia (Audiowalk) developed.

Projects with andpartnersincrime:

AFTER THE END OF THE MEETING: THE ACADEMY (2020)

AFTER THE END OF THE ASSEMBLY: THE PARLIAMENT (2020)

MAINTENANCE ART (2021)

ACADEMY OF THE RADICALLY CARING (2022)

EMPTY CITY (2023)

for those who do not belong – MOVEMENTS ALONG THE UNFORGETTABLE 
PiratixUtopia (Audiowalk) (2024)

TO THE RIGHT OF US THE LAND (2025)