In the organizer's words:

Jürgen Kuttner presents his video snippet lecture on the subject of "Family Secrets" at the Humboldt Forum. He shows media evidence from East and West - family footage, commercials, television sermons and sentimental pop songs - which, between humor and delusion, kitchen psychology and Cold War comedy, portray the private sphere as political and absurd. The lecture is part of an audience series spanning over 25 years, in which Kuttner explains the world with selected film excerpts - fast, funny, sometimes merciless, often berlinizing.

Jürgen Kuttner addresses family life as an "intrusion into private life" (Karl Kraus) and reveals that family conflicts are universal - from the West German nuclear family of the 1970s to the GDR family.

His video snippet lectures have enjoyed cult status at the Berlin Volksbühne since 1996, and here he uses new, revealing material from East and West German television archives to stage an all-German family drama.

This ironic foray into the living room shows that the word "family ties" has a flavor of truth and that family life is more than just private.

Jürgen Kuttner, born in East Berlin in 1958, is a radio presenter, cultural scientist, theater director and freelance cultural worker. After graduating from high school in 1976 and completing his basic military service with the NVA, he chose to study cultural studies rather than physics. In 1988, he completed his doctorate at the Humboldt University in Berlin on the subject of "Mass culture and the masses - a methodological and conceptual-historical study". Until 1989 he was employed by the "Association of Visual Artists of the GDR" and in 1990 co-founded the eastern edition of taz, for which he also worked until 1992. From 1993 to the end of 2007, he hosted the legendary "Sprechfunk" program on the Berlin radio station Fritz. Since November 1996, he has also regularly given his so-called video snippet lectures entitled "Von Mainz bis an die Memel" at the Volksbühne Berlin. Jürgen Kuttner lives and works in Berlin.

- Location: Hall 1

- Language: German

- Price: 12,00 EUR / 6,00 EUR

- from 16 years

- for groups, young people, families

- Wheelchair accessible