STUDIE VON G. ANSCHÜTZ, DOLOMITEN 1943

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What to do with the photos of grandfathers in Nazi uniforms that you find in shoeboxes, photo albums or framed on the sideboard? Our grandparents are dead, but these photos remain and they raise questions: about the survival of Nazi ideology in the family, in our upbringing, and in our ideas about what masculinity should be.

The grandparents' sideboard becomes a stage on which the front photographs of our grandfathers are transformed into life-size drawings. Little by little, this creates a performative comic in which Marie Simons and her collective take apart the old photographs, re-sketch and paint over them, and question their impact on their own biographies.
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What to do with the photos of grandfathers in Nazi uniforms that you find in shoeboxes, photo albums or framed on the sideboard? Our grandparents are dead, but these photos remain, and they raise questions: about the survival of National Socialist ideology in the family, in our upbringing and in our ideas of what masculinity should be.

Our grandparents' sideboard becomes a stage on which the front photographs of our grandfathers are transformed into life-size drawings. Little by little, a performative comic emerges in which Marie Simons and her collective take apart the old photographs, re-sketch and paint over them and question their impact on their own biography.
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director, text: Marie Simons / stage, text: Nikolaus Kockel / performance, text: Dennis Dieter Kopp / costume, text: Angela Queins / performance, drawings, text: Nora Schön
Supported by the Behörde für Kultur und Medien, the ZEIT-Stiftung and the Claussen-Simon-Stiftung.
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Berlin guest performance supported by the Rusch Foundation.