Doppel-Performance “Non-Violent Bodies” und “East German Fragilities” von Karol Filo und Mike Dele Dittrich Frydetzki

Two solo performances, two young perspectives, two explorations of East Germany and Eastern Europe in the 1990s: Karol Filo looks back at the Czech Republic and Slovakia in the 1990s. The brutality of far-right skinheads clashes with waves of antifascist counter-violence. The Slovak-born theater and video artist examines this era and relates it to the ideal of nonviolence.

Mike Dele Dittrich Frydetzki becomes Maik: the village boy, the little coward, the half-measure. In a semi-fictional encounter with his own past, Mike asks what it might have meant to grow up as a white boy in East Germany in the 1990s. In a queer self-portrayal that oscillates between a sense of powerlessness and threatening gestures, Mike asserts a different perspective.