Graphic Novel Tage: Isabelle Maroger und Bianca Schaalburg

In the organizer's words:

Dark secrets in your own family

Tonight's double bill continues with two illustrators who have both drawn comics about their families' Nazi past. Both tell their stories as involuntary stories of discovery.

In "The Scent of Pines" (Avant), Bianca Schaalburg traces the behavior of her grandparents in National Socialist Berlin. French illustrator Isabelle Maroger learns by chance that her mother was born to a German soldier and a Norwegian woman as part of the Nazis' "Lebensborn" program. "Lebensborn" (Helvetiq; translation: Silv Bannenberg) is the title of her comic. As with Schaalburg, it is a joint family effort that brings to light what has long been kept quiet in the past.

Moderator: Andreas Platthaus
Interpreter: Svenja Huckle

Price information:

Day ticket € 16,-/12,- Free admission for students / trainees / pupils at the Box Office Livestream € 6,- / Streaming pass for three evenings: € 15,-