Polyformers: Anastasia

In the organizer's words:

Followers of the Anastasia movement are populating rural areas across Germany. Their way of life attracts people with its closeness to nature and spirituality - but
the idyll quickly turns out to be a place of radical right-wing ideology with links to
Reichsbüger:innen and the neo-Nazi scene.
The blood-and-soil ideology of the Anastasia movement is based on a Russian fantasy novel series.
novel series. In the ten-handed series, author Vladimir Megre depicts a paradisiacal place of self-sufficient living around the mysterious title character "Anastasia". Her vision is for people to be self-sufficient on "family estates" in harmony with nature. She believes in the healing power of love and her own garden as well as in telekinesis and cosmic energies. On a total of 3000 pages
Megre develops folkish ideas, racist theories and a "Jewish world conspiracy" under the cloak of "harmless" esotericism.
Since 1996, the fictional series has been used as the basis for "family books", initially in Eastern Europe and soon in
Germany, Austria and Switzerland with village communities and organic farming. Some are now classified by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution as "definitely right-wing extremist".
Anastasia - On the Trail of Ethnic Settlers is a documentary-style theatrical journey
behind the scenes of sectarian settler life. Based on original sources, three performers explore various aspects of the movement in a sensual, playful and informative way.

Supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the State of Saxony-Anhalt, the City of Halle (Saale) and the Pankow District Office.