SEID DOCH LAUT is a site-specific performance at the Bautzner Straße memorial about the GDR opposition group "Women for Peace" in the 1980s. By making this opposition history visible, Alexandra Finder and the creative team from SEID DOCH LAUT are countering the distorted historical record and state security with a different perspective, showing how women mobilised, dared and did things, and thus reflecting the current uprisings determined by women worldwide. A theatre beyond the theatre building.

With the performance SEID DOCH LAUT Alexandra Finder and the creative team are occupying the site of political persecution in the GDR, recalling the misanthropy associated with this place, but also the Peaceful Revolution of 1989. The size of the ballroom is used and there is no spatial separation from the audience, because they are invited to express themselves while at the same time realising that this is possible today within these walls without repression, but also necessary in a living democracy.

Further information and the start of the performances will follow.

Information on the SEID DOCH LAUT project can be found at https://seiddochlaut.de/

An event organised by the Bautzner Straße Memorial in cooperation with the creative team of SEID DOCH LAUT. SEID DOCH LAUT is a project in co-operation with the BArch and Robert- Havemann-Gesellschaft, funded by Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien and Berliner Beauftragten zur Aufarbeitung der SED Diktatur, and Aufbau Verlage.

Guest performance in Dresden sponsored by: Gastspielförderung des Nationalen Performance Netz (NPN); Stiftung Sächsischer Gedenkstätten; Kommunale Kulturförderung der Stadt Dresden; Sächsische Landesbeauftragte der Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur.

Funded in 2022 by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds, LOTTO-Stiftung Berlin, Bezirksamt Lichtenberg von Berlin aus Mitteln des Bezirkskulturfonds, Stiftung Frauen in Europa/TuWas-Stiftung für Gemeinsinn, Friedrich Stiftung.