What Do You HAve Against Peasants, Lady? DVD CARMINA SLOVENICA

“What have you got against peasants, lady?” he had asked, before he obeyed her request.

Choregie project by Karmina Šilec
Concept, music direction and stage design: Karmina Šilec
Music: Jacob Cooper 
Text: Heiner Müller: Germania 3

Performed by:
Vilim Matula, actor
Carmina Slovenica, ensemble
Voices: Jasmina Črnčič, Eva Germ, Mojca Potrč, Nina Pušenjak, Sara Ritonija, Ana Sandrin, Ana Studen

Memories are the main protagonists, and voices from the past are the ones that lead us to unexpected effects where Time takes initiative for action. Figures – farmer and women – speak from within their historical contexts to the present in an effect which creates a museum-like theatre of the dead.
German history and culture, its effects across the broader field of Europe:
Final days of WW2. Croatian SS Man, who looks to German officers widows “like a peasant”, arrives and does the job for them with the peasant’s tool, an axe…
Imaginary accounts of the pain and suffering of modern German history:
Present time. Croatian soldier is now a guest worker in Germany, dressed in a suit, shirt and tie. He tells his story…*