Bewohner

In the organizer's words:

Puppet theater based on the notes of the psychiatrist Christoph Held

in cooperation with Theater Waidspeicher e.V. Erfurt and the international figuren.theater.festival

An actress, a banker, an Italian guest worker, a drug addict, a depressive - they all inhabit a dementia ward, and dementia inhabits them. They only remember fragments of their lives. Nevertheless, their stories want to be told. The biographies of the residents reflect different aspects of human existence, although or precisely because the dementia patients are reduced to the mere essence of their personality.

In Sostmann's production, people interact with puppets and bring the residents' portraits to life - as carers, relatives and friends. In this way, the care room becomes a model of the world: who are we and what remains of us when we forget ourselves?