documentary Filmprojekt with live music Film

ARBEITERINNEN
PRACUJĄCE KOBIETY

Social decline looks very differently throughout Europe: in its existential threat, in the personal sentiment or the socio-political suspension. The documentary project examines how the relation between identity and work has been developing throughout three women generations in working-class families in Germany and Poland: Which correlation is there between the experience of social decline and political bearings, expectations as well as wishes? Does imminent or increasing poverty foster segregating behavior towards others and does it even amplify the tendency to let racism become a legitimate instrument within politics again? What does a change of perspective from and on two different countries reveal? Is mutual solidarity possible? A comparing view on Europe is meant to show how working biographies today liquefy, entire fields of work disappear, gender- and family models change. Over the course of a year werkgruppe2 hhas interviewed women from three generations who live in two structurally weak industrial regions (Ruhr area and Lower Silesia) which are characterized by a high rate of unemployment and poverty. The first-theatre-now-film-production, based on conversation transcripts, is exclusively told from the perspective of women as until today it is mainly them who in their housekeeping first feel the indications of impoverishness. It also is them, who’s perspectives have been mainly untold till now.

with: Janka Woźnicka, Marta Zięba, Janina Sachau, Trixi Strobel, Ingrid Domann, Bożena Baranowska Live-Musik: Esra Dalfidan und Katrin Mickiewicz/ Kasia Bortnik

directing Julia Roesler scenery and costume Léa Dietrich Viva Schudt composition Insa Rudolph visual concept/ editor Isabel Robson dramaturgy Silke Merzhäuser, Piotr Rudzki, Judith Heese concept and research werkgruppe2, Piotr Rudzki text Silke Merzhäuser, Julia Roesler translation Kasia Noga, Iwona Uberman, Andreas Volk

Produced by werkgruppe2, Co-Produced by Schauspiel Essen, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen and Teatr Polski – w podziemiu / Polski Theatre in the Underground

With support of the International Koproduktionsfonds Goethe Instituts

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documentary Filmprojekt with live music Film

ARBEITERINNENPRACUJĄCE KOBIETY

ARBEITERINNEN
PRACUJĄCE KOBIETY