Ost*IWest*IFrau*

Presenting a transgenerational, feminist snapshot: How is our woman*hood related to differences between East and West? Artists, authors and novelists with a GDR and a FRG past, will meet on the stage to discuss German history from a many-voiced and subjective perspective. Characterizations, mis/attributions and stories told on the basis of their own biographies and intimate points of view. Shared in conversation and through new writings and texts.

2 pm Readings and talk:

Blaustrümpfe unterwegs, Hunger auf mehr

Kerstin Hensel and Sabine Peters

Both authors, colleagues and friends, share their thoughts about good and bad breeding and manners in east and west Germany, about childbirth and enduring relationships.

www.Kerstin-Hensel.de

https://www.wallstein-verlag.de/autoren/sabine-peters.html

4 pm GESTALTEN – Interactive installation

mikro-kit is present| Magali Tosato, Larissa Jenne, Benjamin Dimitrow

Accessible throughout the festival between events. Visitors encounter other visitors with the help of props and requisites found in the Volksbühne workshops. They are invited to engage and share their biographies in a dialogue or on paper. The texts and fragments will be presented during the festival.

The company mikro-kit is the joint venture of French-speaking artists from Switzerland and Berlin-based artists exploring social phenomena through individual biographies and careers in their microcosm. Their approach is multi-lingual, collective-based and characterized by a multi-perspective view on the world.

https://www.mikrokit.de/de/

5 pm Readings and talk:          

Florian Werner and Thomas Brussig

Although the festival is going to offer relevant female perspectives, viewpoints from other, male positions are also welcome: Writers Florian Werner and Thomas Brussig were both born in Berlin – one in the western, the other in the eastern part of the city. They share their personal perspectives on the women who have formed and influenced them, and the women the live(d) with: grandmothers, mothers, partners, daughters and other relevant others.

https://www.thomasbrussig.de

https://www.florianwerner.net

7 pm Lecture performance:

Ruth Herzberg and Ronja von Rönne

The encounter between Ruth Herzberg and Ronja von Rönne will be revolving around love, sex, truthfulness and integrity across different contexts of socialization.

https://frauruth.de

https://sudelheft.blogspot.com

9 pm Readings and talk:

Kenah Cusanit and Asal Dardan

Asal Dardan meets Kenah Cusanit. Asal Dardan, born in 1978, grew up in different worlds between Cologne, Bonn, Aberdeen and Sweden after her parents fled from Iran. Kenah Cusanit, born in 1979 and raised in East Germany, attended six different pre-schools and day cares, studied Ancient Eastern Philology, Ethnology and African Literature, but also took a keen interest in the sociology of scientific knowledge, physics, medical studies and botany. For the festival Ost*|West*|Frau* the writers explore the links of their own childhood experiences of foreignness with political contexts and politics. How does our upbringing impact our sexuality, our experience of motherhood, our attitude towards care work?

https://hoffmann-und-campe.de/blogs/autoren/asal-dardan

https://www.hanser-literaturverlage.de/personen/kenah-cusanit-p-1413