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Performance

René*e Reith: TÄNZE FAST VERGESSENER GEISTER

René*e Reith: TÄNZE FAST VERGESSENER GEISTER
19. June 2026
21:00
schwere reiter
19. Jun 2026
21:00
schwere reiter
20. June 2026
21:00
schwere reiter
20. Jun 2026
21:00
schwere reiter

“It is, after all, an unshakeable conviction that love is, remains, and always will be earthly – for death cannot kiss.” Liddy Bacroff

With TÄNZE FAST VERGESSENER GEISTER, Hamburg-based choreographer, performance artist and dance scholar René*e Reith, together with her queer, transfeminist team, presents an interdisciplinary performance that combines contemporary dance, biographical performance and choreographic sound design.

The work premiered on 11 March at Kampnagel in Hamburg.

The focus is on the Hamburg-based trans artist and sex worker Liddy Bacroff, who was persecuted and criminalised under National Socialism and murdered at Mauthausen concentration camp in 1943. She is regarded as one of the first trans women in Germany to be known by name and is today an important figure in queer remembrance culture. Drawing on previously unpublished literary, autobiographical and philosophical texts written during her imprisonment—researched at the Hamburg State Archives—the performance follows those spirits that continue to act through bodies and return because something remained unfinished. In an interactive installation, the bodies of the audience themselves become vessels of memory and imagination.

Against the backdrop of increasing transphobia, the work sees itself as an artistic contribution to a polyphonic queer culture of remembrance.