Rigoletti (West woman) reads the GDR
Rigoletti – a "West woman" in former East Berlin – reads her way through the GDR. Through literature, pictures, diaries, letters, soundbites, and videos, she pieces together a multifaceted mosaic of a contradictory country. A Germany both loved and hated, which harbored many secrets until the fall of the Wall.
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VISUAL Kulturelle Aneignung DDR: Eine audiovisuelle Live-Literaturshow von Rigoletti
Well-known names such as Christa Wolf, Volker Braun, Stephan Heym, Wolf Biermann, Jurek Becker appear, as do Brigitte Reimann, Franz Fühmann, Helga M. Novak, Sarah Kirsch, and Erich Loest. What was behind the Bitterfeld Way?
And what actually happened at the 11th Plenum? Rigoletti's audiovisual literary show provides pointed answers – witty, critical, and surprising.
ABOUT RIGOLETTI
Rigoletti is known as a media artist for her satirical short films and initiated the "Reconstruction of the Berlin Palace Humboldt Forum" campaign in 2011. Under her real name Marion Pfaus, she also works as a director of the successful rbb true crime comedy podcast Caro ermittelt.
(IN GERMAN)
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Dates
October 2025
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