In the organizer's words:

Scenic reading

"When my grandpa could still remember things better and didn't get everything through the tüddel, he told me a lot about the war. Bombs fell in the middle of the night. Incendiary bombs. They called them fir trees because they glow in the dark and when they land, everything near them burns down. I was about eight years old when he told me that."

The staged reading "Germany must die" deals with the culture of remembrance of the Nazi regime. It addresses the gaps, blurs and misrepresentations in the reappraisal of this period. It raises the question of how the passing on of memories across generations can work without trivializing or normalizing them.

The author of the text, Paulo Jamil Sieweck, starts from his very individual relationship with his grandfather. The grandfather who repeatedly recounts his memories of the Allied bombing raids. The grandpa who showed his grandson pictures of concentration camps at an early age. The grandpa whose estate contains Nazi propaganda.

Occupation

Paulo Jamil Sieweck
Luise Arnold
Theo Thun