on echoes and grief

In the organizer's words:

On Grief and Echoes -in collaboration with Turtle Magazine -- is an evening of two performative readings that bring together writers and performers from the Turtle Collective to explore grief, memory, and emotional inheritance through text, movement, and sound.

Across both works, loss is approached not as something to be hidden or resolved, but as a shared experience that shapes language, body, and space. Intimate stories of personal and family relationships unfold through embodied performance, creating resonant spaces where remembrance, absence, and transformation become collectively perceptible.

On Grief, Lara Wüster reads excerpts from her book project Papierhaus, currently funded by Literaturhaus München (Große Tour 2026). The book explores the dual structure of loss: on the one hand, we lose the person who dies; on the other hand, those who remain are also, in a sense, lost. Within the intimate love story of two women - Ruth (a writer) and Magalie (a doctor who loses her father) - grief is negotiated through language, while Angela Zoé-Ann translates words and emotions into a physical reality visible to the audience.

On Echoes, the bond between a young woman and three generations of women in her family are explored: her sister, mother, and grandmother. Set in the old house of her deceased grandmother, the text by Sabrina Laue is a compilation of memories of these figures that return like echoes. The house becomes both a physical setting and a symbolic space of resonance and remembering. It holds the traces of the past while symbolizing a possible future. The performance brings her together with Salomé Rodrigues, who embodies the echo itself - physically and vocally - becoming both reflection and counterpart to the remembered figures. Together, they open an emotional space in which personal memories can resonate in others and unknown echoes can be awakened.

Blurring the boundaries between reading and performance, the evening invites the audience to engage not only as spectators but also reflectively and sensorially. After the performances, there will be time for reflection on what resonated most through participatory proposals led by the artists.