Schlamassel - Aktuelle jüdische Perspektiven / Geschichte des Höhenpark Killesberg

The performance Schlamassel brings contemporary Jewish voices into the public space on a speech/music tour through the Höhenpark Killesberg - a place between idyll and Nazi history.

The Höhenpark Killesberg was also created in 1937-39 with Jewish forced labor and was the starting point for the deportation of over 2,600 Jews in 1941/42.

Today, memorials commemorate this - in the middle of the leisure facilities. The memorials stand opposite numerous works of art in the Höhenpark - without any context to their Nazi-incriminated creators. The Killesberg exemplifies the contradictory nature of German remembrance culture: between coming to terms with the past, repression and the desire for an idyll. The whole of Stuttgart meets here to walk, relax and linger - and yet the Shoah is also to be remembered.

The performance Schlamassel confronts this field of tension: remembrance and escapism, present and history. Based on documentary reports by Jewish people, the artist group BSV addresses anti-Semitism, exclusion and the handling of memory using the example of the history (and present) of Höhenpark Killesberg.

Two speakers and a musician accompany the audience from station to station and make Jewish life today, its breaks and continuities and the history of the park tangible. The speakers are Jule Hölzgen and Mario Pitz. The event will be musically accompanied by Kasia Kadłubowska on the vibraphone.

An event by Aliki Schäfer (BSV) and Andreas Vogel (BSV) in cooperation with the Akademie für gesprochenes Wort. The performance is supported by the Koordinierungsstelle Erinnerungskultur des Kulturamts.