Offene Wunde

In the organizer's words:

Open wound
by Tunay Önder & Christine Umpfenbach

On July 22, 2016, an assassin with racist motives kills nine young Munich residents at the Olympia shopping center: Armela, Can, Dijamant, Guiliano, Hüseyin, Roberto, Sabine, Selçuk and Sevda. He then executes himself. Almost all of those murdered were born and raised in Munich. Seven of the nine victims are Muslim, one is Roma and one is Sinto. The investigating authorities and the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution initially classify the crime not as a politically motivated attack, but as a killing spree, even though the perpetrator's right-wing extremist views were known. It was not until three years after the crime that the Bavarian security authorities agreed with the assessment of the Federal Office of Justice and classified the attack as a right-wing extremist act, not least due to the persistence of the relatives.

Tunay Önder and Christine Umpfenbach develop a theater evening based on conversations with the relatives, which tells of the (continuing) lives of the relatives and victims. Through conversations with lawyers, politicians and employees of security agencies, Önder and Umpfenbach make visible the social environment in which racism thrives and repeatedly ends in death. "Open Wound" is a reminder of those murdered who will live on as long as we do not forget them.

More information and tickets here: https://www.muenchner-volkstheater.de/programm/schauspiel/offene-wunde