Esther Dischereit's Flowers for Otello

Please join Alamanya: Transnational German Studies Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop on Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 6pm for a multimedia performance with guest author, German-Jewish poet Esther Dischereit, as she performs laments from her 2014 work Flowers for Otello.

North Quad, room 2435
Tuesday, Nov. 1: 6pm
Q&A and Reception to follow

Flowers for Otello is dedicated to the families of nine immigrants and one policewoman who were maliciously murdered by the National Socialist Underground (NSU) between the years of 2000 and 2007. Due in part to state investigative authorities’ refusal to seriously consider racism as a motive, these crimes went unsolved until 2011. Flowers for Otello addresses issues of race, memory, and violence in relation to these crimes; in a series of lamentations it offers a unique multilingual perspective on systematic racism in present-day Germany through a medium that is at once poetic, musical, and performative.

Spoken word performance in German and Turkish (English translations provided) by Esther Dischereit and Selim Özdogan.

Interpretive dance by Holly Handman-Lopez
Electronic music by Tom Lopez
Percussion by Justin Gunter

We look forward to seeing you there!

Co-sponsored by:
Alamanya: Transnational German Studies (Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop)
Music & Sound Studies Reading Group (Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop)
The School of Music, Theatre & Dance
The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures