Podiumsgespräch FIND 21

Panel Discussions

With »Qui a tué mon pére« (Who Killed My Father), by and with Édouard Louis, and Alexander Zeldin’s »LOVE«, we are showcasing two productions that tackle questions of participation and the fair distribution of wealth and resources. The answers to these questions also depend on whether we are looking at them from a local or a more global perspective: in Germany, almost 20 percent of the population are affected by poverty and social exclusion, and the numbers are increasing. The effects of the social division into rich and poor can even be seen in people’s physical bodies. From a global perspective, however, despite the steadily growing inequality at home, almost all of us in Germany are part of the »complicit« rich of this world who benefit from the outsourcing of the costs of our wealth. How can these two perspectives be reconciled? Especially since, from an ecological point of view, an expansion of our materially privileged zone is neither plausible nor reasonable. How can people be mobilised to take part in a local class struggle if that simultaneously means we should all have less in order to help the global South, or in the very least, that we should significantly decrease our consumption? These questions are the subject of the following panel discussions:

Inequalities in the world capitalist system
3 Oktober /12 pm

Poverty and body
10 Oktober / 12 pm