PASKUDNIK

With PASKUDNIK, Tubi Malcharzik & team embark on a search for a gap in the family memory, the word that often left the grandfather's lips to call the grandchild. There is no clear translation of the word PASKUDNIK ...

PASKUDNIK is a post-migrant drag persona that got lost when crossing the border between Germany and Poland, between past and future. In memory, the word PASKUDNIK moves between dining table, soccer match, parasite and disgust. What exactly the term means remains unclear. With this performance, Tubi Malcharzik takes a queer look at her own German-Polish family history and sets out in search of this familiar but undeciphered hole in the collective family memory.

One hundred years after the referendum in the border region of Upper Silesia, fifty years after Willy Brandt took a knee in Warsaw and after the family arrived in the Friedland border transit camp in the Federal Republic of Germany, Tubi Malcharzik takes the word PASKUDNIK as a starting point to rewind German-Polish migration history together with an interdisciplinary team. Through immersive soundscapes, narrative carpets and imagination, they open up a queer and post-migrant space of memory. They invite the audience to the dining table of an Upper Silesian family celebration and to the interface of a dating app, until these places connect for the duration of a song. Using a red velvet dress, myths about high cheekbones and songs by t.A.T.u. and Peter Alexander, the performance touches on questions of gender roles and sexuality, queerness and anti-Slavism, as well as Polish-German memory culture.

From 16 years.

Mainly in German spoken language with Polish surtitles.

The FILMSCREENING: FILIPKA - about Filipka Rutkowska, trans and non-binary artist from Poland - will take place on Friday, December 13 at 7:15 pm.

After the screening on December 13, the panel discussion ECHOES OF THE EAST - ON QUEER RESILIENCE FROM BIAŁYSTOK TO LEIPZIG, SOLIDARITY BEYOND NATIONAL BORDERS & NON BINARY JOY will take place in the LOFFT foyer.