Hinterlassenschaft: A House Full of Stuff

In the organizer's words:

Legacy: A House Full of Stuff
Between canned cherries, a bank account filled with expectations and the nose of an unknown father, a house full of things emerges. notsopretty creates a play about memories that fade, about things as enduring witnesses of the past, about bureaucracy, emotions and inequality. Who inherits, who is left out? What is life like when money no longer plays a role? And how many zeros are there in a billion?

A House Full of Stuff is an invitation to negotiation, reflection and redistribution with integrated audio description and musical composition. Based on personal experiences, the three performers translate the practice of inheritance into a performative will. In doing so, they play with legal and contractual formalities, biographical and fictional narratives, testimonials and interviews.

Content note: Thematization of death, family trauma, poverty and inequality

Proximity to the audience

Early boarding / early admission from 19:40
Early boarding is an early admission to the auditorium, twenty minutes before the start of the performance. During this time, it is possible to enter and explore the stage, find a seat in peace and quiet and get used to the situation in a relaxed manner.

Language: German, in parts with audio description

The team
Concept, artistic direction, performance: notsopretty (Anna Júlia Amaral, Marcel Nascimento, Nina Weber)
Stage design: Aaron Stratmann
Sound design: Vito Oliveira Azevedo
Technology, lighting design: Jan Leschinski
Production management, dramaturgy: Amelie Werner
Production assistance: Simona Brücker
Graphic design: Felipe Ribeiro Rodrigues
Expert with disabilities for accessibility for blind and visually impaired people: Adriani Botez
Public relations: Emelyn Yábar
Social Media: Anna Júlia Amaral

Hinterlassenschaft: A House Full of Stuff is a co-production of notsopretty with Theater im Depot Dortmund. In cooperation with: Physical Theatre Netzwerk e.V., Burg Hülshoff - Center for Literature as part of the Droste Festival 2025: Landlord's Game as well as the Freie Theaterverein Heidelberg e.V.and the Vielsichten_Beirat am Karlstorbahnhof

Supported by: Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the LWL-Kulturstiftung, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of conceptual funding, the City of Dortmund, the Cultural Office of the City of Bochum

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🎭 In case you're wondering what the play is about...

notsopretty deals with different concepts of heritage, the bureaucracy behind it, the super-rich and their tax loopholes, but also with emotions and memories - what does our heritage, the objects from our family home, the photos they leave us, tell us about ourselves as people? But also with a view to the future: what do we want to leave behind for our descendants? And what if we don't plan any descendants at all?

🎤 Briefly about us: who we are and what we do...
The performance collective notsopretty , consisting of Anna Júlia Amaral, Marcel Nascimento & Nina Weber, has been developing multimedia performances with video, choreography and music - on stage and in digital space - since 2019. What they have in common is their love of pop culture: notsopretty make use of its means with relish and create works that playfully explore self-expression and identity constructions - based on origin, gender and sexuality.