Simon Nabatov: „was Mein Großvater Mir Erzählen Könnte“ | Live Recording at Loft

tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro

doors: 7.30 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CEST

“My grandfather Semyon Yakovlevich Mindal was arrested, tortured and executed during the great Stalinist purges. I grew up with stories about him, with the stories told by my grandmother and mother, which fascinated and horrified me from an early age.
With this project, I would like to deal directly with this biographical material for the first time and create a kind of life reconstruction from a few memories, facts, general historical events and many fictional elements....

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tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro

doors: 7.30 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CEST

“My grandfather Semyon Yakovlevich Mindal was arrested, tortured and executed during the great Stalinist purges. I grew up with stories about him, with the stories told by my grandmother and mother, which fascinated and horrified me from an early age.
With this project, I would like to deal directly with this biographical material for the first time and create a kind of life reconstruction from a few memories, facts, general historical events and many fictional elements.
A difficult task, because my grandfather, so talented and charming, so loving to his wife and daughter, was an employee of the NKVD, a terrifying terror apparatus of internal security…”
Simon Nabatov, Cologne, August 2024

Supported by:
Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordhrein-Westfalen, Kunststiftung NRW

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