Schwarz Rot Geil - Trilogie Teil 1

A piece by cindy+cate

we wave a flag. we take handkerchiefs with us in front of the television: on national mourning day we mourn and on remembrance day we remember, so let us stand up, let us be silent for a minute, then you can hear the grass grow better.

Zero hour. Germany remembers, commemorates and wants to make amends. Germany remembers well. Suffering is locked away in monuments and memorial days, right-wing continuities become individual cases - this creates new space for national identity. At last, Wetten, dass ...?, the City Palace and the Ministry of Homeland again. The Nazi past seems to be only a small part of the otherwise great positive German history. Schwarz Rot Geil deals with questions of forgetting, memory and identity. The German self-image has long since ceased to be an anti-fascist one. The actual goal is being forgotten: history must never be allowed to repeat itself. Confronting the structures of forgetting is political remembrance work. Political remembrance work is shaping the future.

Duration: 50 minutes
Age recommendation: from 13 years

With: Alice Kretzer, Emily Warringsholz, Julius Brockmann, Tabea Below, Florentine Fuhrmann, Céline Elío Ilbertz, Lina Winter

Supported by: Stiftung Braunschweiger Land, NRW scholarship 'Auf geht's!', City of Braunschweig. In cooperation with the Falken Braunschweig