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Linke Hände

© Thilo Mössner+Franziska Kronfoth

The musical lecture performance »Linke Hände« is dedicated to various positions of female artists in the GDR on ideals and ideology, repression and the reality of their country. It tells of the possibilities, decisions and lives of these artists, follows in their footsteps and into their work, is a documentary, declaration of love, punk concert, question time and essay all in one.

An important foil is Brigitte Reimann’s strongly autobiographical novel character Franziska Linkerhand – the young architect who wants to build liveable cities and dwellings and fails. Her contradictions between artistic and human ideals and disillusionment are reflected in a radical and unique way in the work of oppositional female artists of the seventies and eighties such as Gabriele Stötzer and Cornelia Schleime. Their transgressive, visual art took place in close proximity to music projects, political engagement, punk and fashion undergrounds.

 

The music theater collective Hauen und Stechen developed its works in cellars and on opera stages. It stands for a poetic, multifaceted and wild theatrical language that marks a political and idiosyncratic position in music theater. For this special evening of lectures at Ballhaus Ost in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, the collective invites the GDR punk formation Rosa Beton onto the stage and gives almost forgotten works – texts, pictures, actions, film art – and biographies a platform from which to explore the peculiarities and idiosyncrasies of artistic creation in the GDR.

 

N O T E :

There are moments with loud music.

Performance: Angela Braun, Gina-Lisa Maiwald

Keyboards: Roman Lemberg

Rosa Beton: Thomas Wagner (Guitar, Vocals), Thomas Trenkel (Bass, Vocals), Martina Dünkelmann (Moog, Vocals) und Alexander Lode (Drums)

Direction:  Franziska Kronfoth

Stage design: Thorbjörn Björnsson

Costumes: Wieland Lemke

Video: jakob klaffs

Direction assistence: Tabea Papritz

Production management: Philip Decker

 

A production by the music theater collective Hauen und Stechen in cooperation with Ballhaus Ost.

Funded by the Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, the Amt für Weiterbildung und Kultur, Fachbereich Kunst und Kultur im Bezirksamt Pankow and the Rudolf Augstein Stiftung. With the kind support of theaterhaus berlin.

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