Kinderstar von 6 bis 8 (zaungäste/Susanne Zaun/Marion Schneider)

An autofictional attempt at remembrance with a choir of performers about a child star of the 90s

There are three of us who wake up in a cold sweat once a month because they dream that they are still child stars.

There is one of us who really used to be a child star. There is not one of us who really remembers it. There are four of us who tell this story anyway.

How can one's own childhood be told in literature based on memories and their gaps, stories, family myths and existing documents? What role do historical and political circumstances play in this, which we can only really understand in retrospect? And how can we share memories when the difference of different experiences always stands between us? The zaungäste approach the review of the childhood years from a particular biography: one of the performers was a presenter of a children's program in the 1990s that ran parallel to the civil war in her native country. Together with her chorus colleagues, she creates a narrative mosaic that constantly questions her own memories and in which she happily rejects the role of the leading actress: I actually only remember the photo of it. There is a photo of it, isn't there?

Duration: approx. 75 min.
Language: German
Recommended from 15 years

World premiere
Mousonturm co-production