Facade

Green-blue pastel tones, mountains on the horizon, a lake on the left and larger-than-life bodies: bodies on horses, bodies on bath towels, bodies on a rowing boat. A German bathing idyll on a mural behind a Freiburg façade. It is an idyll for young, healthy, "Aryan" bodies. Other bodies do not fit into the picture. They were systematically murdered. The mural was painted between 1936 and 1939 during the National Socialist era. After the Second World War, it was hidden behind a wall. The painting was only rediscovered in 2023 during renovation work for the newly founded Documentation Center for National Socialism Freiburg (DZNS). It is now part of the exhibition. Theater Freiburg and the DZNS have joined forces for Fassade. Together with director Caroline Anne Kapp, they look behind Freiburg's façade and bring hidden things into the public eye: suppressed stories, erased images, erased lives. Together with the acting ensemble, they are creating a mobile production that will be shown at various locations in the city. The actors let the DZNS archive speak. They speak of then and now.