UNIVERSEN: Paskudnik

In the organizer's words:

Post-migrant drag persona, Polish-German culture of remembrance and queer whispers in the universes: with PASKUDNIK, Tubi Malcharzik & team embark on a search for a gap in family memory; the word that often left the grandfather's lips to call the grandchild.
There is no clear translation of the word PASKUDNIK. Between the dining table of an Upper Silesian family celebration and the surface of a dating app, the performance touches on issues of gender roles and sexuality, anti-Slavism and queerness.

One hundred years after the referendum in the border region of Upper Silesia, fifty years after Willy Brandt took a knee 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 retrace 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 issues of gender roles and sexuality, queerness and anti-Slavism, as well as Polish-German memory culture.


A project by Tubi Malcharzik & team, produced by Die Soziale Fiktion, in co-production with NFT - Netzwerk Freier Theater, LOFFT - DAS THEATER Leipzig, Schwankhalle Bremen and brut Wien. The NFT is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the Federal Association of Independent Performing Arts' Promoting Connections program. The guest performance in Hanover is supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Hanover. The project was supported by the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the City of Leipzig - Cultural Office. The adaptation and premiere in Austria is supported by the City of Vienna Culture.