Goldstück

In the organizer's words:

Piece of gold
Text by Verena Güntner

A woman tries to break out of the cycle of domestic violence and financial dependence, confronted daily with bureaucratic hurdles and a lack of help. Her growing child turns to right-wing ideologies and becomes radicalized online. Despite all resistance, the woman tries to fight her way out of isolation, constantly accompanied by an inactive chorus that alternates between exhaustion, indifference and contempt and is difficult to counter in its inert mass ...

The new production by the Pièrre.Vers theater collective led by director Christof Seeger-Zurmühlen and author Verena Güntner will celebrate its world premiere in Chemnitz as part of the European Capital of Culture 2025 program and can be seen immediately afterwards at asphalt.

"Goldstück" focuses on the threatening development that right-wing actors and parties are trying to roll back democratic and liberal achievements, taking advantage of anti-feminist and anti-gender narratives. How to counter this? Telling one's own story seems to be a way out: according to feminist US author Rebecca Solnit, those who make it visible cannot disappear. In her essay "Recollections of my Non-Existence", published in 2020, she writes that this is "rebellion. A resurgence, a takeover". "Goldstück" outlines a way to expand the chorus of humanity again ...

Following its successful four-part cycle "Historification" and its examination of Nazi crimes in Düsseldorf, the Pièrre.Vers theater collective's latest productions deal artistically with events of right-wing violence and threats to democracy in Germany, for which it has received top funding from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, among others.

Verena Güntner, born in Ulm in 1978, played in the theater for many years after studying acting. Her debut novel "Es bringen" was published in 2014. Her second novel "Power" was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2020 and awarded the Schubart Literature Prize in 2021. As part of the feminist literature collective LIQUID CENTER, Verena Güntner published the collective novel "Wir kommen" together with Elisabeth R. Hager and Julia Wolf in 2024. She lives with her family in Berlin.

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with Anna Magdalena Beetz, Julia Dillmann, Azizè Flittner, Paul Jumin Hoffmann Alexander Steindorf, Sandra Zawada

as well as a large speaking choir:
Antonía Annoussi, Claudia Fourmont, Dirk Rom, Ekaterina Ivanushkina, Finn Leon Çam, Inge Emi Berentsen, Jeannette Ostern, Julie Marienfeld, Sara Fasi, Silvia Göhring-Fleischhauer, Valerie Marschall

Director, concept: Christof Seeger-Zurmühlen
Room, costume: Susanne Hoffmann
Composition and sound design: Bojan Vuletić
Sound: Sandra Zawada, Benjamín Herrera
Technical direction: Hans-Jürgen Müller
Technical assistance: Halgir Abdulkareem
Production assistant: Mika Ludwig
Production management: Melissa Müller
Press relations: Marita Ingenhoven
Social Media: Hannah Busch