In the organizer's words:

As part of the OFS final production by Ruben Müller

"I will disappear and have nothing hidden."
- Hervé Guibert in an interview (Globe, 1992)

Every tear is recorded, no story forgotten, every secret written down - and the often-asked question of which stories we remember arises again: what do we actually do with (queer) stories without a happy ending? With stories that (unfortunately) don't tell of emancipation, of someone achieving something for the first time, of someone finding their freedom and peace? "Every tear recorded" reminds us of them - because forgetting them doesn't seem to be an option either. We face the paradox that our dreams of a fairer, freer future should grow out of experiences of pain, stigmatization and loss.

These thoughts are the starting point of the video essay "every tear recorded". The team behind Ruben Müller's OFS final production will also be sharing the current state of their work on this evening at the Habibi Kiosk. In the production "Mitleidsprotokoll", autofictional works by French author and photographer Hervé Guibert, who addresses his own HIV infection and that of his fellow human beings, will be edited and brought to the stage. Guibert's self-proclaimed project was to consistently record his life situation and that of those around him at the end of the 1980s, albeit with an artistic twist. His works tell stories without happy endings and thus tie in directly with the initial question of the lecture performance.