Glowing Landscapes – Feeling A: a Herstory of the Turning Point

In 1989/90, the phenomenon of being there and being gone continues. Little by little, everyday things that had previously been taken for granted disappear. New ones emerge and overwrite the previously valid reality. There's hardly any time for goodbyes.


Germany reunited. Can that mean less or more? What do people remember in the context of the Wende and unification narratives? Does this legitimize a sense of loss?



Based on interviews conducted by theater maker Anika Lachnitt with artist Anja Gessenhardt, and in collaboration with video artist Friederike Bérat and dramaturge Dag Lohde, Feeling A: A Herstory of the Wende is a poetic performance of remembrance that transcends standardized historiography. Drawing on the tools of documentary theater and contemporary circus, the piece interweaves biographical narratives of upheaval, growing up, and the experience of loss, spanning the period from 1989 through the 1990s in Berlin and East Germany to the present day.