Auf diese Steine können Sie ... (UA)

In the organizer's words:

Today, the detached house appears to us as a natural form of housing, but it is actually a conservative idea from the 1950s: As part of Konrad Adenauer's domestic political attempt to establish West Germany as a bulwark against communism, the legal foundations were laid for the construction boom of detached houses.

Their architecture still shapes how we organize our lives in the community today. Single-family homes have shaped the suburbs outside the urban center, made the Germans an autonomous nation and contributed to the economic miracle of the 1960s. And they gave stability to a fragile post-war generation. The feeling of finally belonging to the social class of owners as "house builders" nipped any socialist idea in the bud.

This emotional and political value of home ownership is still determined by one central protagonist today: the housewife. Based on this historical symbolic figure, who we encounter today as the "Trad Wife" on the Internet, the performance collective hannsjana explores the effects that the building policy of the 1950s had on women's lives: overheated cities, housing shortages, broken public transport, stress and poverty in old age.

In a performance somewhere between a cooking show and a documentary, veteran housewives talk about their commitment to the fight against communism at home in the kitchen. The artist collective hannsjana uses humor and music to explore alternative ways of life and rediscover the subversive potential of the housewife. They pull the flaps of the fitted kitchen wide open and sing:

You can build on these stones
build /

On these stones you can
shit /

You can throw these stones!