Das öde Haus

Performance, 2024, 150 min.

"Das öde Haus" (the desolate house) is a site-specific intervention at Haus Rüschhaus near Münster. Performances, sound installations, sculptures, drawings and costumes deal with the motif of the witch's house as a place of temptation, deception and camouflage, but also as a protective space and a space of possibility for self-determined actions. Described by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff as a "snail's shell", the private rooms of the poet and her wet nurse in the Rüschhaus house represent a place of retreat into intimate concentration and creativity. The witch's house, often used from the outside as a mystified projection surface and hermetic domicile of dubious narratives with feminine connotations, stands on the inside for safe spaces in which transformative forces can unfold. The barren house ducks away from the gaze of visitors and yet extends an unusual invitation.

With contributions from Jemima Rose Dean, Paula Erstmann, Nicolas Fehr, Rosanna Graf, Nschotschi Haslinger, House of Blaenk, Lisa Klosterkötter, and Paulina Nolte.

Concept by Lisa Klosterkötter and Rosanna Graf
Music: Nicolas Fehr and Rosanna Graf
Costumes: Leonie Falke , Lisa Klosterkötter, Sarah Ferreira dos Santos und House of Blænk.

Das öde Haus*
May 2024, Haus Rüschhaus
Center for Literature
Droste Festival 2024 - Nenn mich Hexe!

Das öde Haus is part of the project Drag Space: Witch please! funded by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.


*Das öde Haus, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, 1844

Das öde Haus, 2024, Performance; Droste Festival, Münster, documentation photos and video (Photos and video footage: Jakob Engel, Edit: Rosanna Graf)

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Das öde Haus

"Das öde Haus" (the desolate house) is a site-specific intervention at Haus Rüschhaus near Münster. Performances, sound installations, sculptures, drawings and costumes deal with the motif of the witch's house as a place of temptation, deception and camouflage, but also as a protective space and a space of possibility for self-determined actions. Described by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff as a "snail's shell", the private rooms of the poet and her wet nurse in the Rüschhaus house represent a place of retreat into intimate concentration and creativity. The witch's house, often used from the outside as a mystified projection surface and hermetic domicile of dubious narratives with feminine connotations, stands on the inside for safe spaces in which transformative forces can unfold. The barren house ducks away from the gaze of visitors and yet extends an unusual invitation.

With contributions from Jemima Rose Dean, Paula Erstmann, Nicolas Fehr, Rosanna Graf, Nschotschi Haslinger, House of Blaenk, Lisa Klosterkötter, and Paulina Nolte.

Concept by Lisa Klosterkötter and Rosanna Graf
Music: Nicolas Fehr and Rosanna Graf
Costumes: Leonie Falke , Lisa Klosterkötter, Sarah Ferreira dos Santos und House of Blænk.

Das öde Haus*
May 2024, Haus Rüschhaus
Center for Literature
Droste Festival 2024 - Nenn mich Hexe!

Das öde Haus is part of the project Drag Space: Witch please! funded by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.


*Das öde Haus, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, 1844