Guest Wife - Between Home and Sorrow
By »Katharsis Kollektiv«
Depot 2
In the current production of the Katharsis Collective, the personal and political experiences of the Turkish guest workers and women of the German recruitment society are theatrically documented. Because migration history cannot be viewed one-sidedly, Burçin Keskin (singing, acting), Sarah Plattner (singing, acting) and Miriam Meißner (directing) use the German-Turkish recruitment agreement to tell the encounter of these two cultures as a common history. What influence does the immigration history of the guest workers have on our coexistence today? How do we want to be as a society, how do we want to remember and, above all, how do we want to meet?
»If we don't even give these women a place in our history...« - »Will they ever stop being guests then?« - »Will we ever stop being hosts?«
The Katharsis Collective formed in April 2020 to artistically explore the question of the interaction between the individual and society. In doing so, the collective produces theatrical performances from an intersectional feminist perspective.
»If we don't even give these women a place in our history...« - »Will they ever stop being guests then?« - »Will we ever stop being hosts?«
The Katharsis Collective formed in April 2020 to artistically explore the question of the interaction between the individual and society. In doing so, the collective produces theatrical performances from an intersectional feminist perspective.
26 - 28 May 2023
remembering means fighting -
FIGHT TO CHANGE!
MIGRANT STRUGGLES, THEN AND NOW - A NETWORKING MEETING
Survivors and relatives of victims of right-wing violence are committed to and fighting for a different, above all dignified politics of remembrance, also in NRW. They demand clarification, justice and consequences. They are supported by initiatives and alliances. In recent years, several survivors and relatives of victims of right-wing, racist and anti-Semitic violence as well as initiatives from Berlin, Dortmund, Duisburg, Halle, Kassel, Cologne, Mölln, Munich and Solingen, among others, have joined forces nationwide to support each other in solidarity and to jointly give more expression to their demands. Why, no end? What are the demands of survivors and relatives of right-wing violence? At Whitsun, workshops, open panels and the guest performance GUTEST WIFE as well as the performance THE GAP 2.0 will create safe and open spaces to strengthen networking and exchange in solidarity in NRW. But the weekend, together with the association Streikkultur, also creates visibility and connections to past migrant struggles in Germany. We cannot look at Hanau and Halle without a reference to the racist murders and attacks of the NSU. The NSU complex not without the racist attacks and pogroms after the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification and this time not without the treatment and life of the so-called »guest workers«!
These events have to be seen in context in order to realise a dignified and profound remembrance for migrant struggles. Remembering means fighting! Fighting to change.
These events have to be seen in context in order to realise a dignified and profound remembrance for migrant struggles. Remembering means fighting! Fighting to change.
cooperation partners
In cooperation with the nationwide initiative KEIN SCHLUSSSTRICH! and within the framework of the project »Solidaritäts-Netzwerk der Betroffenen«, funded by the Federal Agency for Civic Education as part of the programme »Antirassistische/rassismuskritische politische Bildung stärken!«.