MY DISGUST IS A PRIVILEGE

The GDR and East Germany have repeatedly triggered disgust in recent times: for example, when the historian Hedwig Richter speaks of the “disgusting, inhuman GDR” (2022), or the Springer boss Mathias Döpfner laments his “disgust” at the East Germans, who are either “just communists or fascists” (2023). Disgust with East Germany has also been dealt with many times in art, prominently in Christoph Schlingensief's horror satire “The German Chainsaw Massacre” (1990) or in the disgust provocations of the controversial band Rammstein. With a series of events, Panzerkreuzer Rotkäppchen examines the political and physical economies of the 'disgusting East', according to the motto formulated by the playwright Heiner Müller: “My disgust is a privilege” (1979). With this materialist reading of disgust as a privileged bodily practice, Panzerlreuzer Rotkäppchen curates three events with different focal points: 1. disgust as political horror in the 1990s, 2. disgust in the performance art of the GDR and 3. disgust as body politics of contemporary East German artists.

Panzerkreuzer Rotkäppchen invites experts from various disciplines and genres to the events and brings them into conversation with each other. In addition, Panzerkreuzer Rotkäppchen develops an artistic supporting program for each event, including the premiere of a performance on the respective topic. The aim of the series is the political and physical mobilisation of the 'disgusting East' as a powerful form of discourse since the 1990s. Instead of bourgeois nausea, the project opens up artistic spaces for thinking and working on the complex of “disgust and the East”. The first event of the series will take place at Ufer Studios, Studio 1, on 30.11.2024, at 7 pm. This event deals with the question of disgust as political horror in the 90s. From a psychoanalytical perspective, this event focuses on the repressed in the GDR, which found its disgusting outpourings in the 90s (including pogroms such as Rostock Lichtenhagen, desecration of Jewish cemeteries). On the other hand, we focus on the complex of the disgusting East in the reunification narrative of the 1990s, with which a paradoxical appeal to East Germans was formulated: to be both the right and the other Germans, to whom the abject of the West German consensus (anti-democratic, fascist, racist, anti-international) could be outsourced and split off.

The series My Disgust is a Privilege is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

 

Production: Panzerkreuzer Rotkäppchen

Artistic Director: Susann Neuenfeldt

Head of Dramaturgy: Simon Strick

Dramaturgy Assistant: Marisa Burkhardt

Financial Management and Social Media: Maria Ullrich

Stage design: Werner Türk

Public relations: N.N.

Technical direction: Holger Duhn, Klaus Altenmüller

Dance & performance: Jenny Helene Wübbe, Kerstin Hurbain, Anna Stiede, Giorgia Bovo/ Documentation: Sezgin Kivrim

Next date: Mein Ekel ist ein Privileg

• Date Saturday, 30/November/2024 19:00
• Venue Uferstudios - Uferstudio 1
• Address Badstraße 41a, 13357 Berlin-Wedding