ich bin mir selber fremd geworden - Lighting Design

Ich bin mir selber fremd geworden – Stimmen aus dem Frauenzuchthaus Hoheneck is a performative concert about the women’s prison Hoheneck near Stollberg, a central site of political persecution in the GDR. The performance combines contemporary music, choreography, text, and light to address the experiences of women imprisoned for political reasons and attempted “flight from the Republic”.​

Artistic approach (light)

The lighting design translates the colorless, monotonous everyday life of Hoheneck into a grayscale, filmic light language that feels drained, narrow, and repetitive. Faces, hands, and silhouettes appear only fleetingly, as if in fragments of a black-and-white film, while light and shadow actively control proximity, distance, and isolation between the performers.​
The performers move between sewing machines, walls, and instruments, and the light sculpts these elements into a confined, shifting architecture that constantly negotiates exposure and concealment, visibility and erasure.​

Team

Music theatre: Schatz & Schande​

Ensemble: Neue Kammer​

Composition: Philipp Rücker​

Lighting design: Franz Lehmann

Read more about the project at Schatz & Schande.

Upcoming Events

16.01.2026   10 Uhr   Hoheneck/ Theater Burratino, Stollberg (Erzgeb.) Tickets
16.01.2026   16 Uhr   Hoheneck/ Theater Burratino, Stollberg (Erzgeb.) Tickets

Past Events

08.11.2025 Stasi-Zentrale/ Campus für Demokratie “Haus 22”, Berlin
07.11.2025 Stasi-Zentrale/ Campus für Demokratie “Haus 22”, Berlin
07.11.2025 Stasi-Zentrale/ Campus für Demokratie “Haus 22”, Berlin
14.02.2025  Kaßberg Gefängnis - Lern- und Gedenkort, Chemnitz
17.11.2024  Gedenkstätte Bautzner Straße, Dresden
16.11.2024   ZiMMT (Torgauer Straße 80, Leipzig)
15.11.2024    ZiMMT (Torgauer Straße 80, Leipzig)