It is summer. A day celebrating beauty and death. A family gathering in a charming country house in southern Portugal. The atmosphere is pleasant, but there is murder in the air. Because today the youngest member of the family is supposed to kill her first fascist, in keeping with a family tradition that goes back for generations. However, Catarina refuses – and this leads to conflict. As they sleep, the family and the fascist are haunted by the ghost of Catarina Eufémia, one of the icons of the resistance against the fascist dictatorship whose brutal regime governed Portugal from 1933 until the Carnation Revolution of 1974. With his internationally acclaimed play the director and playwright Tiago Rodrigues addresses burning issues of our times: What does fascism mean in today’s world? And how far can we bend the rules of democracy in order to safeguard its objectives?

“(Anti-)Faschismus. Ein Definitionsversuch” – Intoduction on 9.7. at 18:30 with Dr. Veronika Duma (Fritz Bauer Institut) and Daniel Mullis (Leibniz-Institut Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung)
Language: German

Introduction on 10.7. at 19:00 in the Panorama Bar.
Language: German

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