Berlin,
Munich

Liddy Bacroff (1908–1943) was a trans person who worked as a sex worker, artist, and dancer in St. Pauli, Hamburg. René*e Reith has condensed Bacroff’s life into a revue-like piece that dissolves the boundaries between audience and stage: Initially, the audience stands amidst the performers; eventually, disco-ball-like mirrored beanbags are wheeled in—upon which one can lounge at will—while diary entries by the protagonist play in the background. As an immersive performance, it explicitly engages with Camp as an aesthetic structure. Moreover, the evening represents a form of remembrance that—unlike, for instance, the “Stolperstein” (stumbling stone) for Bacroff on Hamburg’s Simon-von-Utrecht- Straße—refrains from deadnaming.