Sohn* werden English — annakirstinelinke

Sohn* werden
eine autofiktionale Held:innenreise
(German for: Becoming a Son* - An Autofictional Hero*'s Journey)

Photos: Joseph Ruben Heiks

The son* Anna Kirstine Linke returns to Brunswick. Nobody has been waiting for Anna in Brunswick, but that’s for sure: Brunswick is THE city where something big happens. Here and only here, in the city where Anna was born in the 90s and should have become a daughter, Anna can really become a son*, at least Anna thinks so. Anna's father thinks that stuff around gender and that Anna wants to be a "son*" is bullshit.

On Anna's return journey to Brunswick, everything that has piled up between the son* Anna and his father gets in Anna’s way: Anna's love for everything that consists out of more than two parts, his father's love for physics and its limits, myths of fathers and sons* that Anna had left behind, memories of fathers and sons* in Brunswick in the 90s and their comparison with the present.

What does it take to become a son*? Does becoming a son* mean becoming a man*? Does Anna even want that? And what story do the son* Anna and his father write when father-son* stories break in, their time together is no longer linear and a time of optional families opens up?

An evening about fathers and sons* in search of "what holds the world together at its core" in a multipolar time. An evening in the middle of transitions that may never come to an end. An evening without a happy ending. A queer, autofictional hero's journey by Anna Kirstine Linke.

Credits:

Text, Direction, Performance, Son*: Anna Kirstine Linke
Artistic Collaboration: Bo Wilschnack
Stage and Costume Design: Barbara Lenartz
Outside Eye: Dori Förster

Light Design: Alexander Treffenstädt
Sound and video: Kolja Löblich
Event technology: Daniel Bock, Heinrich Brügge
Dramaturgy: Katharina Gerschler
Room Installation: Florian Barth

Content Note:

The performance thematises queer- und trans*phobia.