Shaking Hands with Ghosts
by Katrin BretschneiderAG Weser in Bremen Gröpelingen was one of the largest shipyards in Europe. Today, the site is home to the Waterfront – a shopping mall. In 2021, Katrin Bretschneider, whose parents met while working at the shipyard, staged a participatory audio performance on the former shipyard site about the identity-forming and solidarity-based labour struggles of the past and poses questions about utopias of future work.
The further development of the performance into an audio walk can be heard here permanently.
Artistic direction, text, voice: Katrin Bretschneider
Sound design: Ilona Marti
Ritual design and dramaturgy: Verena Ries
Shadow projection: Constantin Jaxy
Pilots: Sophia Zimmermann, Lennard Wilking, Lixin Zhang
Technical direction: Frank Barufke
Video technology: Florian Wilke
Project development: Oliver Behneke, Katrin Bretschneider
Production management: Daniela Guse, Elisabeth Sowa
Research: Katrin Bretschneider, Elisabeth Sowa
Assistance: Jorun Jensen
Communication: Ulla Tiedemann
A production by Katrin Bretschneider in co-production with Schwankhalle Bremen. Supported by the Senator for Culture Bremen and the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the programme #TakeAction. With the kind support of the Bremen Chamber of Labour, Waterfront Bremen and Kultur Vor Ort e.V., sponsorship: Pikto Panoptikum e.V., patronage: Senator for Economics, Labour and Europe Kristina Vogt.
