MEIN VATER WAR KÖNIG DAVID

In the organizer's words:

FROM ANALOG

PERFORMANCE

by and with: Lara Pietjou, Dorothea Förtsch, Ingmar Skrinjar, Hanna Held

Awarded the Cologne Culture Prize 2024 as "Best Cultural Event 2023", a co-production of ANALOG, studiobühneköln, Schauspiel Köln and NS Documentation Center Cologne

at Depot 2

The project by Cologne-based performance label ANALOG deals with the themes of identity, family and the self in time. The performance is based on the Jewish family history of Lara Pietjous, a member of the ensemble.

After the death of her father, Pietjou found evidence of her Jewish ancestry and her ancestors during the Third Reich in his estate. In a video interview, her grandmother spoke about the death of Lara's great-grandfather in Auschwitz and how she herself survived the Holocaust in hiding. ANALOG examines this turning point in Pietjou's biography and explores her family history using performative means. The performance also sheds light on the transgenerational effects of the grandmother's trauma on Pietjou's father, who suffered from bipolar disorder and was convinced in manic phases that he himself was King David.
The examination of this family history is also an examination of us as a society, of interfamilial taboos, questions of belonging and identity and the diversity of Jewish life in Germany today.

The performance is accompanied by a video installation that highlights questions of dual identity(ies) from different Jewish perspectives and can be viewed half an hour before the performance.

Followed by a discussion.

Further information here.

Price information:

16€ / 8€ reduced