In the organizer's words:

after Édouard Louis // Director:Lisa Nielebock

Édouard Louis' autofictional novels and stories depict with great intensity how poverty, confinement, exclusion, homophobia and patriarchal gender roles in certain social classes lead to ever new spirals of hopelessness and violence. Louis succeeds in highlighting the entanglement of victims and perpetrators and their exposure to social power structures without ever becoming blurred in his distinction between different forms of suffering. The perpetrator is also a victim - does he act out of helplessness, anger or socially produced auto-aggression? - Nevertheless, he remains a perpetrator. And the victim remains a victim - even if he understands the perpetrators, even if he cooperates with them in forced complicity.

In his novel "Who Killed My Father", Louis describes his highly ambivalent relationship with his father, who rejects his homosexual son, is ashamed of him, abandons and abuses him and yet still loves his child. He describes his own coming of age as the story of a son who has to cast off his father in order to be able to live and yet wants nothing more than to be seen by him. A story of tenderness and violence, self-hatred and accusation, which Lisa Nielebock presents as an intense and sensitive chamber play.