Bard College Berlin News
Prof. Dr. Nina Tecklenburg presents at re:publica25 with Interrobang and performs at HAU with She She Pop
"Schubladen"
At re:publica 25, a festival for digital society with the motto “Generation XYZ,” topics relating to the internet, its communities, and the opportunities and challenges that lie in the digitalization of society were brought to the stage. Tecklenburg and performance group Interrobang, for which she serves as co-artistic director, staged the participatory online performance “Commune AI” as part of the festival.
Tecklenburg is also performing in “Schubladen” (Drawers) with She She Pop at HAU, thirteen years after the performance’s premier. In “Schubladen,” Tecklenburg and two other performers from She She Pop (all of whom were raised in West Germany) meet three women raised in the East onstage in order to open up each other’s drawers. A collective biography of the last 40 years emerges from the personal materials of the performers.
The piece addresses how cold war ideologies (still) shape German identity, as the women confront their differences and the persistent divisions of East and West Germany with honesty, wit, vulnerability, and humor. Letters, excerpts from journals, and other personal text documents are roughly chronologically sorted as well as literature, political texts, each performer’s internal image repertoire, and music. She She Pop and their Eastern colleagues search for the objective in the private, asking, Who were we? Who are we? Why have we become who we are?
Buy tickets for performances of “Schubladen” on June 13 and June 15 here.
Post Date: 06-13-2025