PASCAL NORDMANN

© Gunda Nordmann
Pascal Nordmann is a writer, visual artist, and theater professional. He has lived in France, Germany, and Switzerland, where he currently resides. In Germany, he founded the “Chairos Theater,” which initiated a significant street theater festival. Alongside his theatrical activities, he pursues a diversified artistic career, encompassing literature, playwriting, poetry, visual arts, and digital arts. For the past three years, he has been publishing a poetic column dedicated to current events, “Fil info,” on his website. He has received the Revelation Prize at the Cerveira Art Biennial (Portugal), the UNESCO International Monologue Competition Prize, and has been a laureate at the Lyon Theater Writers’ Days. His art explores boundaries, emphasizing a certain surrealist spirit, poetry, strangeness, and humor.
NOCTURNE
11 OCTOBER
Doors open at 19H15
FILMS DEBAT
in presence of the film directors
Le traumatisme,
Does trauma,
both physical and emotional,
imprint on generations and shape their lives.
Can one break free from family or historical fate
to live new path?
S.PRECHTEL
Guest Artist
Sandra Prechtel
Born in Munich, Prechtel has been living in Berlin since 1991, the very city her mother’s family escaped from during the WW2 bombings to Bavaria.
In her studies and creative research, she focuses on one subject: how the war, the destruction, and the terror of the Nazi regime affected subsequent generations, including herself, who cannot escape this heritage.
Graduated in Comparative Literature, Film Studies, and Political Science, Prechtel has written for newspapers, worked for radio and TV, and authored a book.
She is also the author and director of several short and long documentaries that have been released on TV, in cinemas, and at international film festivals.
PROGRAM
19H30 – Screening of the film After Glory – Pascal Nordmann – 18’09 Min
About
Après la gloire (After Glory) addresses the descendants of the survivors and questions the trace and weight of blood and terror, asking the question of how much the shadow of history can haunt the future and whether it can go so far as to turn victims into persecutor.

© Pascal Nordmann
7:45 PM – Liebe Angst – Sandra Prechtel – 4′ Minute 52
Screening – extract from the documentary Liebe ANGST
+dialogue about the project
19:50 PM – Discussion between Sandra Prechtel & Pascal Nordmann
8:20 PM – Break – light refreshments
8:30 PM – Screening of the film LIEBE ANGST 81′ Minutes
LIEBE ANGST lets us feel in an almost physical way, how trauma is passed on throughout generations, inscribing itself in the bodies and souls of subsequent family members and determining their lives. How does one find a way out of family fate to a life of one’s own?
Directors Note
Kim, Tom, Lore. Three ways to cope with the monstrosity of our history. Lore, who survived by not remembering – Tom, whom the burden of history cost his life – Kim, who confronts the memory she suffers from. Life in all its dimensions.

LIEBE ANGST
Documentary
film director
Sandra Prechtel
© Sandra Prechtel
LIEBE ANGST