Fassade

In the organizer's words:

Green-blue pastel tones, mountains on the horizon, a lake on the left and larger-than-life bodies: bodies on horses, bodies on bath towels, bodies on a rowing boat. A German bathing idyll on a mural behind a Freiburg façade. It is an idyll for young, healthy, "Aryan" bodies. Other bodies do not fit into the picture. They were systematically murdered. The mural was painted between 1936 and 1939 during the National Socialist era. After the Second World War, it was hidden behind a wall. The painting was only rediscovered in 2023 during renovation work for the newly founded Documentation Center for National Socialism Freiburg (DZNS). It is now part of the exhibition.
Theater Freiburg and the DZNS have joined forces for Fassade. Together with director Caroline Anne Kapp, they look behind Freiburg's façade and bring hidden things into the public eye: suppressed stories, erased images, erased lives. Together with members of the ensemble and the methusalems (senior citizens' theater), a performative exploration of the urban space between present and past is created.

A remembrance research project in collaboration with the Documentation Center for National Socialism Freiburg. Meeting point: 5:30 pm in the Foyer Großes Haus

Concept and direction: Caroline Anne Kapp, stage: Amina Nouns, costumes: Carla Renée Loose, sound: Florian Timur Wulff, dramaturgy: Elif Zengin, artistic production management: Marisa Burkhardt, choreographic collaboration: Jana Baldovino, assistant director and evening stage manager: Paul Grimshaw, set design assistance: Merve Kaplan, Tin Wang

With: Jana Baldovino, Victor Calero, Nadine Geyersbach, Kei Muramoto, the methusalems