Werkschau @ Circus Schatzinsel am 01./02./03.10.2022
Erfurt ’89, after the summer vacations. Anja enters the classroom. Steffen, the Nazi, is still there. Moritz is gone. Janet is still there. Nicole is gone. The principal is still there. Unlike her husband. He has also moved over. In the years 1989/90, the phenomenon of being there and being gone continues. Little by little, things from everyday life that had previously been a matter of course disappear. In their place, new things are added and overwrite the previously valid reality. There is hardly any time for farewells.
Germany reunited. Can this mean less than more? What do we remember in the context of unification narratives? Is there a legitimation for a sense of loss in this?
Based on interviews of the theater maker Anika Lachnitt with the artist Anja Gessenhardt and in collaboration with the video artist Friederike Bérat and the dramaturge Dag Lohde, Feeling A – Doing Loss is a poetic memory performance beyond the normative historiography. Using means of documentary theater and contemporary circus, the piece weaves together biographical narratives of upheaval, coming of age, and the experience of loss, and traces the arc from 1989 to the present day.
funded by Neustart Kultur
Idea, Play Development & Staging
Anika Lachnitt
Performance & Play Development
Anja Gessenhardt
Video & Stage
Friederike Bérat
Production Management & Dramaturgical Consultant
Dag Lohde
Sound
Caroline Moos
Sound Design
Anke Wisch
Light
Achim Scheffler
Set Design
Serra Öner
Graphics
Claire Terrien
Public Relations
Charlie Ebert
Documentation
Blandine Casen
Photos
©Nioclás Seeliger