≫The Fall of the Berlin Wall. It sounds like a new beginning. But what if it wasn’t a beginning at all, but a separation, a rupture?≪ The piece was inspired by interviews with women who grew up in East Germany. We talked about motherhood caught between work and caregiving, about childhood, about ruptures and losses. The realization: There is much to mourn. The performer explores processing and new beginnings between political systems; she tells of the end of a relationship. It’s about enduring the contradictions between wanting to leave and being left behind. It’s about the East. It’s about the grieving process. It’s about relationships. How can we live with ambivalences for which there is no preparation?
(Study Project Four, 2025)
ELISA KÜNAST *1998 in Jena, has been a scholarship recipient of the German National Academic Foundation since 2023. Her productions have been presented at venues including the Saarländisches Staatstheater, the Mousonturm, and the Plug&Play Festival in Mainz. At the center of her work is the question of how bodies perceived as female are shaped by systems and what traces remain.
Text by Elisa Künast, Hannah Siecksmeier
Dramaturgy by Hannah Siecksmeier
Set and Costume Design by Lena Reichl
Sound design by Florian Illing
Performance by Anna Stiede
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Created as part of the fourth study project of the Directing program at the HfMDK in cooperation with the Hessian Theater Academy, funded by the HfMDK and the HTA.
- Regie
