WAS IST DENN DA IM OSTEN LOS?

If you want to understand East Germany, you have to connect the time periods before, during and after the fall of the Wall and understand the connections. Without the stories of this chaotic and brutal period, the rise of right-wing and neo-Nazi groups and the success of the AfD cannot be understood, as these years have a far-reaching impact on the present day. The nineties and noughties in East Germany have hardly been dealt with in general and in the context of right-wing extremism. There is still little public discussion about the causes and effects.

"WIR KRIEGEN EUCH ALLE!" is a project about the last days of the GDR and the chaotic and violent years that followed reunification: the so-called "baseball bat years". The staged, participatory discourse format WAS IST DENN DA IM OSTEN LOS? is an invitation from the project's artistic team to get into conversation with one another. The performers of "WIR KRIEGEN EUCH ALLE!" will lead through the evening. With scenes from the performance, live music, participatory moments and discussion with the audience, they invite you on a discursive journey through time that aims to ask important questions together.

The reality of life in the East was and is often dismissed as a subsection of German history and not perceived as all-German. Diana Wesser and Juliane Meckert, in collaboration with former GDR punk musicians from well-known bands such as L'Attentat, IchFunktion and Herbst in Peking, among others, highlight the relevance of these experiences beyond the biographical. In doing so, they aim to close a memory gap in the historiography of Germany as a whole.

As part of DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN.

A performance of "WIR KRIEGEN EUCH ALLE!" will take place on Sunday, 02.06.2024 at 18:30 at LOFFT - DAS THEATER.