Auto-Fiktion: Der Struggle So Real

In the solo AUTO-FIKTION: DER STRUGGLE SO REAL, dancer and choreographer Verena Brakonier invites her audience on a journey to her childhood, to a car workshop. She dances and speaks about experiences and memories. What is true and what is not remains unclear: an autofiction. Playfully and with critical humor, she shows how origins can affect the body, movements and the way through life. Between lifting platforms, tires and welding equipment, she negotiates classism, discrimination based on socio-economic origin and class position, and its influence – societal and on her personally. She explores a space between different milieus, male-dominated work environments, and so-called „high culture.“ When was the first time you went to the theater? And when to a car repair shop?

Verena Brakonier is a worker’s child and grew up in a small village in Rheinland-Pfalz in a car repair shop. She has worked as a freelance dancer and choreographer since 2010 in Hamburg. Since 2021, she has created, in exchange with other artists and activists, the research CLASS MATTERS (IMMER NOCH), among others, at Fleetstreet Theater Hamburg, at PACT Zollverein and gives anti-classism workshops in the cultural field.