HEALING ACROSS IMAGINATIVE SPACES

What is it like to be a black actress? Which roles do theatres in Germany offer? What is happening in terms of the appropriation of cultural heritage, such as the statue of Queen Ngonnso?

Artist and performer Édith Voges Nana Tchuinang poses herself these questions and connects them to form a coherent narrative. Within the film "The last queen" she embarks on a variety of journeys and is concerned with the manifold stories of Black Women. Thereby the pre-german colonial history of Camerun and its emancipatory potential is brought to our present time.

The film The last queen by Édith Voges Nana Tchuinang is a direct confrontation with the historiography and the practices of the global north. An opening of spaces which are on the brink of documentation and imagination.

After the film screening there will be a moderated talk.

A co-production with Ringlokschuppen Ruhr. Supported by the Diversity Fund of the Ministry of Art and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Edith is a German-Cameroonian actress. She initially worked at the OTHNI – Laboratoire de Théâtre de Yaoundé. After numerous performances at various theaters in Cameroon, Edith Voges Nana Tchuinang has been living and working in Germany since 2016.

There she performed at Theater Hagen, Schauspiel Dortmund, Schauspiel Bochum, Ringlokschuppen Ruhr and tak – Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg, among others. Since 2022 she is writing and directing her own plays and performances. Her topics are feminism and the creation of new stories for the 21st century.

Balindile Ngcobo is a South African performer, theatremaker and scholar whose research explores representation, generational trauma and memory culture in postapartheid South Africa. She is a doctoral candidate at the Ruhr Universität Bochum, where she works in the Dramaturgies in the Afterlife of Violence research group.

Nora Amin is a choreographer, dancer, theatre director, writer and researcher. She founded the Lamusica Independent Theatre Group in Egypt (2000), where she choreographed, directed and produced 54 dance, theatre and music pieces. In 2011, she founded the nationwide Egyptian Theatre of the Oppressed project and its Arab network. She has lived in Berlin since 2015. She has been a lecturer for dance workshops at Tanzfabrik, Berlin Mondiale and Sasha Waltz & Guests, among others, since 2018. She is an expert/consultant at LAFT, a former mentor of the Goethe-Institut's MENA training programme and a board member of the German Center of the International Theater Institute. She holds a doctorate in Performing Arts and Cultural Policy from the University of Hildesheim.