Caren Jeß

The artistic team around Miriam Ibrahim deals with the topic of collective and transgenerational trauma through racist violence. How do the painful experiences of our ancestors inscribe themselves in our bodies and in our behaviour? Together, the team explores ways of remembering and rediscovering, shedding light on how we deal with history and the present. The play's development focuses on the genocide of the Herero and Nama people in Namibia by the German colonial power from 1904 to 1908.

The fictional characters of the play, a Black granddaughter and her white grandmother, are enriched by real experiences of the two actresses. They step out of their roles and contextualise themselves again and again against the background of changing video and image material. Anger and repression meet impatience and surrender. The past demands the responsibility of the present. Motifs and questions resurface so often until they culminate in a dialogue of understanding. The love between granddaughter and grandmother rubs up against the socio-political discrepancy that defines it. In this way, the characters take an emotional and critical look at a subject that reaches far beyond the cosmos of the private sphere. (Augsburg State Theatre)