German-language premiere 10.4.27, Thalia Gaußstraße – BOX
When three tourists come across falsified figures for World War II casualties in a guidebook during a trip to Dresden, they find themselves caught up in the fragile narrative of German history. They encounter Gerhard, a neo-Nazi who feels called upon to commemorate Dresden’s war victims. Yet the question of interpretive authority is no longer confined to the political fringes of East Germany. In Christian Lollike’s provocative text, “the foreign gaze” encounters the self-image of German remembrance culture—and a resurgent longing for a German sense of national identity.