mit Annika Eliane Krause

Lecture on the background to the photo exhibition ‘Hello and Goodbye’. What was the personal motivation for the photo project? How did the contact with the protagonists come about? What challenges were there during the accompaniment?

with Matthias Gockel

Can we practise saying goodbye? Should we practise at all? And what does knowing that we will say goodbye - which is always certain - mean for the time we spend together?

with Nattan Dobkin

A shiva is a Jewish tradition, a week-long period of mourning after a funeral. This queer shiva offers an open space of togetherness, centred around mourning and shaped by the people who come.

with Jan S. Möllers

Farewell rituals help to cope with change and support you in integrating what you have to let go of into your life as a memory. In this workshop we will experiment with the Ritual Design Toolkit RISE by memento-Kultur:Trauer e.V.

with Aranja Berkmüller

Join Aranja for an exploration of how different cultures handle the complexities of death, from funeral rites to the grieving process. What values and strategies do they have in common?

with Peter Banki

How can sadness and eroticism be linked? How can the energy of grief be freed? This workshop will explore the links between erotic aliveness and grief. A group ritual of movement, song, and devotion.

with Tanja Godlewsky

You will die. Imagine for a moment that it happens tomorrow – after all, you can’t rule it out. Are you prepared? In this workshop, we will introduce the "Todomat" – the world’s first interactive legacy configurator.

mit Thomas Luhmann

Thomas has already had several encounters with death. He will talk about his own experience, lead a role play in small groups, facilitate a structured exchange and finally reflect on and conclude the process together with the participants.

with Jaym* del Val

A workshop on self-deconstruction in theory and embodied practice. We discover forms of feeling, moving and thinking the body that transcend the narrow spectrum of rationalist, humanist thinking and movement.

with Ulla Rose

How can or should I prepare for the end of life?

with Christine Scherzer

Hardly anyone dares to invite clowns to a funeral - yet the archetype of the CLOWN is predestined like no other to explore the absurdity of human existence and to navigate the border areas of life and death in a dreamlike manner.

with Anna Natt and Jens Dube

In this workshop, we will explore the practice of "playing dead" by experimenting with being moved and moving other bodies.

with Jan S. Möllers

When a person dies suddenly and violently because they have been killed, had an accident or taken their own life, nothing is the same for their loved ones. What support options are available in such cases?

with Peter Banki

With good reason death has been considered to be one philosophy’s most important and enduring questions. What is the meaning or meaninglessness of existence in relation to mortality and death? Can one learn to die?

with Felix Ruckert

A singing circle. Anyone can be guided to let tears flow at any time.

with Gunilla Göttlicher

Imagine you are terminally ill. But your view in the sanatorium is fantastic!
All around you are strange guests. Who are you really? What is your essence?

with Matthias Gockel

Our lives are characterized by constant letting go - be it things, dreams, places, abilities, or people. Often, we have no choice in what we must release or how. However, we can decide how to better appreciate what we (still) have now.

with Matthias Gockel and Judith Salamander

We present a simplified living will that is aimed at people who are basically healthy. It makes situations easier to imagine and decisions easier to make.

with Yolenn Julie Richter and Polina Borissova

What / When the skin decays / The tendons detach / The muscles dissolve / And everything decays / Until nothing remains / Except your own bones.

with Felix Ruckert and Noemi Ferrari

The undead awaken and gather for a singing circle. Rattling, groaning, moaning, weeping and wailing. All emotions welcome.

with Matthias Gockel and Anja Maier

Many people do not realise that assisted suicide is permitted in Germany. Palliative physician Matthias Gockel provides insights into the importance of the topic in his everyday work. Anja Maier presents her project ‘The Promise’ about the assisted suicide of her parents.

with Phonoschrank

What is silence for you? The experience of complete silence, as we might imagine deathly silence, is not possible for us humans. But, an approach is possible through meditation in white noise. This allows us to access deep inner processes.

with Sabine Deschauer

Rituals express what we don't have the words for.
We will experiment with the effect of symbols and you will learn more about the structure of farewell rituals so that you can create them yourself.

with Pavel Radchenko

Anger-works are a special element of the mourning art workshops. The death of someone close to you can trigger many feelings, including anger and despair. However, the last two are not very compatible with our social norms. Accordingly, the angry part of grief is rarely lived out. Forcibly transforming memorabilia provides a channel for this.

with Claudia Cardinal

It is our image of the Grim Reaper that evokes our fear and repression. We adopt the attitude: death is the end. Everything is over and done.
Perhaps through the workshop, the Grim Reaper can unveil his disguise, and we can realize how fleeting and translucentmatter can be. Then we can get to the bottom of transformation.

with Jaym* del Val

The metaformance is related to the workshop ‘’Extinction‘’. A metaformance is a participatory situation without separation between spectator and audience, which aims at a profound shift in perceptual-cognitive structures towards an indeterminacy of experience.