Between Subculture and Realism
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| free admission |
| no ticket required |
| German |
| Ground Floor, Hall 3 |
| Part of: Palace Bar |
| Belongs to: Blown Away: The Palace of the Republic |
What did NOT actually take place in the Palace of the Republic?
In the first part of the evening, academics and experts will speak in Pecha Kucha format. This means that they will give short presentations, each lasting only 6 minutes and 40 seconds, about succultures in the GDR and what did not take place in the Palast.
The evening will be hosted by author and poetry slammer Aron Boks.
The second part will be musical:
“Mit Echten singen”
30 years after reunification, performer and musician Tanja Krone sets off for Chemnitz and talks to her classmates, teachers, friends and family from back then: what was actually going on in 89/90? In her search for connections between the past and the present, the unheard emerges in the landscape of her youth. Real poetry in real existing capitalism… Together with the musician Friedrich Greiling, Krone combines the “real” voices of that time into a new musical fabric. Pop, rock, techno, disco or trance – no one knows exactly what it is, but in 2024, listening carefully seems more important than ever.
The Palace Bar is the format for informal discussions and artistic interventions. It combines debate and art around the theme of the Palace of the Republic. Scientists meet writers, musicians meet publicists and music meets sparkling drinks.
Participants
Tanja Krone is a director, performer and musician. For her, art is a space of possibilities. She asks how the most diverse people can participate in art. To this end, she invents various spaces for action: she founded the biggest women’s rock band in the world. She invented unreal states in Africa and even managed to run for mayor of Mannheim.
Friedrich Greiling is a freelance composer, lyricist and producer. He is also a performer, singer and songwriter in various groups. He runs school and youth theater projects in Berlin. There, the participants develop and perform their own pieces of music. Greiling produces sound installations for theater. He composes for radio plays and films and creates technoid electronic dance music. He heads a band that makes country music. It is called The Trees.
Aron Boks was born in 1997 in Wernigerode and lives as an author, slam poet and presenter in Berlin, Neukölln. Together with Jonathan Schmitz, he forms the spoken word band Das Zappelnde Tanzorchester. In 2019 he received the Klopstock Prize for New Literature. Since 2021, he has written mainly for the taz and the FUTURZWEI column Stimme meiner Generation.
In spring 2023, Aron Boks published his book Nackt in die DDR with literary approaches to his great-granduncle Willi Sitte.