Trad is a trap. Für eine neue Frankfurter Stadtteilküche

What if food were as much a part of city life as libraries or theatres? If culture is publicly funded – why not food too? Perhaps we first need to see food as an art form in order to make it accessible to everyone. The ‘Stadtteilküche’ project by andpartnersincrime turns cooking into theatre and eating into an act of communal care.

Food prices have risen by 30 per cent in a short period of time, and one in four children in Germany has no access to a nutritious meal. Meanwhile, care work remains largely invisible and privatised, whilst the right and conservatives promote the ideal of the traditional housewife as the sole answer to this crisis.

In response, we propose a feminist and solidarity-based perspective on food – drawing on historical utopias of communal kitchens based on solidarity: in the 1920s, thousands cooked for one another every day at the Frankfurt Unemployed Kitchen. In Vienna, Lily Braun conceived of food as the infrastructure for entire blocks of flats. And in Chile, communal street kitchens emerged in the 1970s as a response to a neoliberal dictatorship. We are building on these ‘kitchen revolts’.

Over several weeks, people come together at the Riederwald neighbourhood kitchen and the Mousonturm: chopping, cooking, eating, discussing, singing and, following the logic of productive fiction, testing out a possible alternative world: #ÖNVP – Public Local Catering for All.

• Sun, 9 August 2026, 10:00 Cooking together
• 13:00 | Great Grand Opening of the Riederwald Neighbourhood Kitchen
• Between 9 August and 5 September Regular kitchen operation every Thu–Sat: Cooking together from 10:00, food for everyone from 13:00!

Food for everyone!

What if there were a community kitchen in every neighbourhood of Frankfurt, open to everyone, regardless of their means? What if food were part of the city’s basic services, as much a given as libraries or swimming pools?

The Frankfurt Neighbourhood Kitchen is more than just a neighbourhood project. It is a blueprint, a gathering place and a living utopia. Through public cooking events, we’re exploring what a different kind of city could look like – a city built from the ground up, where care work is shared and there’s enough good food for everyone.

Do you enjoy chopping and cooking? Do you save food? Do you simply enjoy eating in the company of others? Then join us!

Come along to our onboarding session and plenary meeting: every first Monday of the month at 6.30 pm.

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Send us an email: mitmachen@frankfurter-stadtteilkueche.org

Or simply sign up on our rota: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0444AEAD28A0FBC43-64661386-willkommen#/

A project by andpartnersincrime as part of WDC 2026. WDC 2026 is supported by the State of Hesse, the City of Frankfurt am Main and the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain.

Funded by the Performing Arts Fund from funds provided by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain, the Department for Climate, Environment and Women of the City of Frankfurt, the Women’s Department and the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt.

In co-production with Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm and in cooperation with YRD.Works.

Organised by FöDaKü Hessen e.V..

The research, academic support and documentation for this project were made possible by funding from the Hans Sauer Foundation.

Team:

Stadtteilküchenköch*innen: Felix Bröcker, Hugh Alderson (Food thats left), Laila El Bouattaoun, Matthias Schmidt, Susanne Stimpert (Sue's Kitchen), Naziha Majouti und Tigist Yosef, Lucie Nienburg

Künstlerische Leitung: Eleonora Lela Herder/andpartnersincrime

Raumgestaltung: Yacin Boudalfa, Ruben Fischer und David Bausch von YRD.Works

Grafikdesgin und Kostüm: Anna Sukhova & Kathrin Baumgartner

Umsetzung Kostüm: Paul & Lucie Nienburg

Musikalische Leitung & Sounddesign: Jonas Harksen

Performerin: anna stiede

Schneebesenkostüm: Anna Berger

Produktionsleitung und Organisatorische Mitarbeit: Benjamin Bay / Martin Heise

Öffentlichkeitsarbeit: Chiara Marcassa

Communitymanagement: Magdalena Eßer

Social Media: Pierre Hofmann, Nathaniél Eike Hübel

Inhaltliche Beratung und Diskursprogramm: Anna Verwey, Alexis Passadakis, Prof. Dr. Dominik Gager, Leon Joskowitz, Nepomuck Bendukat

Initiative für eine Stadtviertelküche im Riederwald: Catherine Béroud, Fariba Abdolhosseini, Inge Wendel, Lisa Weimer, Naziha Majouti, Sonja Roos und Tigist Yosef.

Unterstützt von dem Bündnis für solidarische Gemeinschaftsverpflegung in Frankfurt: ada_kantine; Café Prekarissimo – AG für gesellschaftliche Teilhabe, gegen Armut und Stigmatisierung, Christians4Future Rhein-Main; Entwicklungspolitisches Netzwerk Hessen e.V.; Eine Stadt für alle! Frankfurt; Ernährungsrat Frankfurt; Mensa von Morgen; Food that’s left; FoodCoop KlaaKarott; Fridays for Future Frankfurt am Main; Freitagsküche Frankfurt, Gemeinschaftsküche Heusenstamm, Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie Regionalgruppe Frankfurt; GemüseBande Frankfurt GbR; Gemüseheldinnen Frankfurt; Greenpeace Frankfurt; Initiative für eine Stadtviertel-Küche im Riederwald; Initiative Grünzug Eckenheim; Initiativgruppe Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen Rhein-Main; Kampagnen-AG Stadtteilküche (Die Linke Frankfurt); Klimaattac – Attac Frankfurt; Klimaentscheid Frankfurt; Klimaschutz Initiative Riedberg e.V.; Koala Kollektiv; Ikonomo; Naturfreunde Frankfurt; Offenes Haus der Kulturen e.V.; People for Future Frankfurt am Main; ShoutOutLoud – Changing the World Step by Step e.V.; Solidarisches Gallus; Özgür Düzel von Stützende Hände e.V.; Sue's Kitchen; Tortuga Eschersheim e.V.; transit e.V.; Transition Town Frankfurt/Main e.V.; turtuga – changemaker community; Umwelt-Exploratorium e.V.; ÜBRIGens Lecker Oberursel.