08.09.2024 | BACKGROUND (DE 2023, Khaled Abdulwahed)
DE 2023, D: Khaled Abdulwahed, 64’, Arabic & German OV with English & German subtitles, DCP
Born in Homs (Syria), the artist, photographer and filmmaker Khaled Abdulwahed has been living Leipzig since 2015. BACKGROUND is the endeavour to reconstruct parts of his father Sadallah’s biography, which is complicated by him having to persevere in Aleppo – despite numerous efforts to bring him to Germany. Parts of Sadallah’s past are closely connected to Leipzig, Merseburg and other cities of the region: In the middle of the 1950s, he came to the GDR as an exchange student. Among other things, language courses, his engineering studies and travels, for instance to the USSR, followed.
What has remained from it? Which experiences have been memorised by Sadallah? Has he left behind traces in photographs and institutional archives? A very personal archive work arises from these questions – covering two generations and ranging across two continents.
| Sun 8. Sept | Schaubühne Lindenfels |
| 7 pm | In the presence of Khaled Abdulwahed € 7 (6 ermäßigt) |
