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THIS IS NOT A CHARACTER, THIS IS BETRAYAL - Directors Statement - ,,Seeing itself is self-absorbed, we see only what suits us and our ideas.`` - random dude on youtube about Lacan or really Lacan, I don't know anymore. For the author Stefan Borgert (Sebastian Urzendowsky) the dream of every author comes true: he publishes his autofictional novel DER SALON about his mother Melanie Borgert (Sabine Urig) and her hairdressing salon with a big publishing house. Only what happens when these worlds collide? Do you know who your mom really is? What she wishes for or what she longs for? Often we only ever know our own parents in one role. We never even know if our mothers were secretly in love, wanted to emigrate, etc. Who do I see when I see my mother? Don't I describe myself and my world view much more when I describe my mother? And for whom am I actually writing? Stefan is ashamed of his origins, but he is also ashamed of what he has become. French sociology, following Didier Eribon's Retour à Reims, uses the term transclass for this state of limbo. A standing between classes: You no longer belong to your world of origin, but your new milieu is also foreign to you. You understand the rules of the bourgeois world, but at the same time recognize the pose behind them. What kind of power does this in-between-ness hold? Isn't that where creative potential lies? To understand the violence of language, but not to submit to the bourgeois game of pretense, and instead to make art that kicks up and humps down, that honestly plays with ambiguity, and doesn't want to belong. A working-class child never becomes bourgeois no matter what it does. As the saying goes: you can take the girl out of the ghetto, but you can’t take the ghetto out of the girl. I wish for more tolerance of ambiguity, a life of simultaneity: Mickey D’s and Hegel, Explosiv Weekend (German entertainment news magazine) and Chantal Ackermann, Barbie Pink and programming, Ruhr region (urban center with industrial worker heritage) and high culture!!!! - Romina Küper
Country: Germany
T-Port Partner: Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg
Romina Küper (*1992) grew up in the Ruhr region and Münsterland. While still studying philosophy, theater studies and comparative literature (RUB Bochum, FU and UDK Berlin), she began a career as an actress and appeared in more than 30 productions. Since 2021 she has been studying directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
An acclaimed debut novel. A reading at the Stuttgart Literaturhaus. A car ride through the...
