Theater/performance: T2 - Monologues with my "asocial" grandfather
by Harald Hahn, approx. 60 minutes plus 30 minutes audience discussion
In 2020, the Bundestag decided to recognise so-called "asocials" as victims of the Nazi regime. There are hardly any personal testimonies of them and remembering them can be challenging: the boozing great uncle who was violent at times? The homeless grandmother who prostituted herself? Our society is only hesitantly beginning to deal with the uncomfortable victims.
Theatre pedagogue Harald Hahn is now dealing with the forgotten suffering in the form of a play – on the trail of his own family history: His grandfather was in a concentration camp because he was an asocial. During this creative process, Hahn has uncovered uncomfortable continuities that have an impact right up to the present: What do guilt, shame and silence do to families over generations? And how do class and origin structure not only memory, but life in contemporary society?
http://asozialer-grossvater.de/
In 2020, the Bundestag decided to recognise so-called "asocials" as victims of the Nazi regime. There are hardly any personal testimonies of them and remembering them can be challenging: the boozing great uncle who was violent at times? The homeless grandmother who prostituted herself? Our society is only hesitantly beginning to deal with the uncomfortable victims.
Theatre pedagogue Harald Hahn is now dealing with the forgotten suffering in the form of a play – on the trail of his own family history: His grandfather was in a concentration camp because he was an asocial. During this creative process, Hahn has uncovered uncomfortable continuities that have an impact right up to the present: What do guilt, shame and silence do to families over generations? And how do class and origin structure not only memory, but life in contemporary society?
http://asozialer-grossvater.de/
Info
Day:
2022-08-18
Start time:
16:30
Duration:
01:30
Room:
Z34-Z36
Organization:
Language:
de