Bremer BuchPremiere: Ulrike Kleinert - Erinnerungsfunken - wider das Vergessen

In the organizer's words:

Maleika and her 13-year-old son Merlin end up in a neighborhood on the outskirts of the city, Heinrich-Paul-Platz. When they move there, they don't know that the settlement was once a Nazi family welfare center for so-called asocials, a cruel camp where the "re-education of the family" was to take place under strict surveillance from 1936 to 1940. From the very first day, they sense that they are being watched. She also notices other oddities. The stairs are made of concrete and the room doors are made of metal. But she tries to dismiss all this as unimportant and get on with her new life. There is a close-knit community in the square that is suspicious of strangers. If someone new comes to the square and doesn't fit in, the dominant inhabitants of the square make sure that he or she disappears quickly. It is as if they are allowing the control they or their parents or grandparents had to suffer to live on. But their good sense of community also bonds them together, gives them support and strength. Maleika senses how she is changing while her son is being bullied. This novel explores the questions: What constitutes one's own identity? Can you ignore the history of the place where you live, or does it catch up with you? With a historical context by Matthias Loeber from the Erinnern für die Zukunft e.V. association.

Read by: The author and Franziska Mencz, actress

Music: Aladin Haddad, guitar