Friday, 10/11/2024
at 8:00 PM


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Aging with dignity is not easy for the men of the baby boomer and post-war generations: globalization, digitalization, gender mainstreaming, etc. – times have changed, but not always in the ways that the majority of the heterosexual, male part of the population in this country desired or envisioned. Many of them would often prefer to be invisible today while still wanting to engage and influence everywhere and at all times.

OLD MAN attempts to take the elderly men of the German majority society born between 1945-64 seriously with their needs and concerns, while also naming blind spots in their self-perception. The pop music style "Americana," as an amalgam of U.S. American roots and country music, serves as a backdrop to reflect on men who dreamed of a different life throughout their lives and who were shaped by pop culture like no other generation before them.

Braun, Schäfer, and Vogel present a multi-media performance featuring video interviews from a documentary filmmaker, a band performing songs written specifically for the evening, a speaker and a performer reading texts, and a sonorous male television voice booming from offstage. Senior fashion is presented, and around the campfire, discussions take place about the infinity of space and the finiteness of men and the father generation of the 20th century.

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