Campus #21 “Grüß Gott Frau Giehse”

Therese Giehse was an actress on stage all her life. There she shaped a multitude of roles and wrote theater history. However, as an art of presence, theater is a fleeting experience. What if you never experienced Giehse on stage?
Today, the Monacensia archive contains part of Therese Giehse's estate. Here her afterlife is packed away in boxes and folders, Giehse's personal and artistic legacy can be found in production photos, newspaper articles, program booklets, notebooks and calendar entries. With what interests do we look at these materials today? What kind of performance does the afterlife of an actress have? Felicitas Friedrich, dramaturge and cultural mediator at the Monacensia, provides insights into the archive as a performative place of memory.

There are numerous themes in the persona of There Giehse that can be empowering and inspiring for us today: Therese Giehse as a woman who asserted herself in the theater landscape, Therese Giehse's political activity, her queerness, Therese Giehse as a role model for a lively, child-free life, Therese Giehse as Butch, Therese Giehse's body (lichkeit), Therese Giehse as a Jew, Therese Giehse as a mother on stage.

Together we will search for what interests and inspires each individual workshop participant and develop scenes, performative approaches, texts or short videos based on images and quotes. A selection of workshop results will be shown at the gala for Giehse in the evening.