The toughest daughter in Germany
“These are no longer cracks, these are trenches opening between us.” For the longest time, losing my father to right-wing conspiracies left me speechless. Until 8 years later, when I sat down to write this play.
“Die härteste Tochter Deutschlands” (“The toughest daughter in Germany”) is a reference to a video that my father took of himself, standing in the snow and calling himself “The toughest man in Germany”, crying and yelling in anger. The video turned viral and one day I found myself sitting next to colleagues who - even though they never met him – immediately knew that this was my father. This was what I had tried to explain to them for the past years.
In this very fragmented text, I am trying to make sense of what happened. Making sense of his radicalization. Of our relationship. Maybe even my responsibility. It is a piece of radical acceptance that explores all those feelings and thoughts, without giving any answers.
The play was supposed to premier on stage of the Box at Deutsches Theater Berlin, but due to the pandemic was reconceptualized as a livestream performance.
Reviews
It is a rapid shift between thoughts, sentences, images that are probably intended to depict the great diffusion and disruption that the Internet can also represent as an intrusion on a single consciousness - especially in this strange bias that is characteristic of life these days: between one's own restriction to one's close private environment and the chaos of images and information from the Internet that has to be processed every day.
The story of a societal disconnect is told where it took place: in the constant parallelism of the internet, where, alongside all the essential things that make up our lives today, supposed evidence can be found for even the most absurd conspiracy theories—and where like-minded people reinforce each other in their delusions.
with
Sarah Kurze • Director
Sima Djabar Zadegan • Dramaturgy
and
Annemie Twardawa • Actress, Puppeteer
Edgar Eckert • Actor
Elias Arens • Actor
Björn Mauder • Music, Composition
Marcel Braun • Music, Composition
Roman Kuskowski • Video, Stream Operator