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Geschmortes Herz

Topic: Travels
Periods:
  • 2022
Artists:
  • Sonya Schönberger
Video by Sonya Schönberger
Artifacts of MS Völkerfreundschaft an artistic approach to travel with an intuitive narration by playwright Enis Maci.
Sonya Schönberger, Geschmortes Herz, 31 minutes, Los Angeles/Berlin, 2022

Geschmortes Herz

Video by Sonya Schönberger, 28:45 minutes, Los Angeles/Berlin, 2022 (Video language German, an English translation of the video transcript is available below).

The Wende Museum in Culver City, California has an impressive collection of artifacts that were made and used in East Germany and tell of a country that no longer exists. Some remnants of the MS VölkerFreundschaft - the so-called socialist dream ship - are also kept there. Playwright Enis Maci looks at the private and official relics and piece together her thoughts on the nature of travel in a country that banned most western travel. Maci is accompanied in her intuitive narration and the attempt to approach a situation, a place, a feeling that seems blurry from today's perspective.

With thanks to Enis Maci, Wende Museum Culver City, Villa Aurora Los Angeles.

English translation of the video transcript (by Sonya Schönberger)
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