Ost*IWest*IFrau*

Presenting a transgenerational, feminist snapshot: How is our woman*hood related to differences between East and West? 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.

12 noon Anti-small talk picnic

Open for all and for free. Bring your own food to share and let yourself be inspired by questions to start a conversation and listen to the texts of others. You’re free to come and join us, or leave as you wish. Rules are: allow encounters with people you do not yet know, and avoid “persuasive monologue“, give everyone the same fair chance to speak and exchange their views.

2 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/

3 pm Staged collage:

Reste essen/Leftovers

PS: Politisch Schreiben /writing politics (Olivia Golde, Eva Schörkhuber, Carolin Krahl)

Choked narratives and rehashed stereotypes of model “Ostfrauen/Women from East Germany“ who ‘can do it’ and get everything done. What’s on the other side? The collective PS touches upon the undigested residues and the continual effects of the transformation on the present in a polyphonic text.

https://www.politischschreiben.net

5 pm Readings and talk:

Olga Hohmann and Mechthild Lanfermann

The writer and visual artist Olga Hohmann, born in 1992, grew up in Kreuzberg and Weimar in an artists‘ environment.  She is going to meet the radio journalist and novelist Mechthild Lanfermann, who was born into a family of workers in Lower Saxony in 1969. A cross-generational, cross-socializational conversation.

7 pm Readings and talk:

Daniela Dahn and Sabine Rennefanz

The East-Berlin born essayist Daniela Dahn (*1949), co-founder of the political movement “Demokratischer Aufbruch/Democratic Awakening“, calls into question commonplace narratives about the East and the West (in Germany). Her books are critical investigations into the reunification and developments after the fall of the wall. The courageous publicist and critic meets the journalist and author Sabine Rennefanz (*1974 in Beeskow), who, equally bold and critical in mind but with different life experiences and influences, is a critical analyst of political and social issues.

https://www.danieladahn.de

9 pm Closing event: Let’s party and talk with all the participants