Pauline Schönfelder
Culinary concert performance
This year, Pauline Schönfelder is the same age as her parents were when the country they were born into simply disappeared. Growing up with memories of a country that no longer exists. But how can you talk about something you haven't experienced yourself?
Schönfelder invites people to a concert, a dance, and a cold buffet. In her wildest fantasy, she reimagines the GDR she never knew, to discover what what is no longer tastes and sounds like. Again and again, she wriggles around the shame of her own ignorance, the gap between narrative, imagination, and experience.
OST is a culinary concert performance and a communal negotiation of what has become deeply inscribed as an emotional legacy. Everyday life, anecdotes, and autofiction feed the soundtrack of the collective question mark of an entire generation and ultimately point far beyond it.
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Duration: approx. 60 minutes
Language: German
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Artistic direction, concept, composition, performance: Pauline Schönfelder / Artistic collaboration: Anne Pretzsch / Musical direction, composition: Tom Gatza / Songwriting advice: Lisa Eveline Kögler / Stage, costume: Christopher Dippert / Live camera: Seda Kaçak / Dramaturgy: Barbara Schmidt-Rohr / Production management: Isabelle Rohlfs / Photo: Mitch Stöhring
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Funded by: Hamburg Authority for Culture and Media, Hamburg Cultural Foundation, Claussen‑Simon Foundation.
