WE'VE NEVER BEEN MODERN

In Frankfurt, there is an acute shortage of affordable housing and a massive displacement of low-income populations from the urban agglomeration. At the moment, this mainly affects the outskirts of the city, where the settlements of the so-called "new" Frankfurt are located. Ernst May's utopia of using political instruments to create social housing has failed.

While the buildings are listed as historical monuments and upgraded with renovation measures, apparently nobody finds anything worth protecting in social and political practice. The increasing existential pressure to which the inhabitants of these former workers' disctricts are exposed manifests itself in racism and xenophobia and not least in increasing success in elections of right-wing parties.

There is a suspicion that we have never really been modern.

Venue: City Laboratory, Historical Museum, Frankfurt

A production of andpartnersincrime in cooperation with the Historical Museum Frankfurt. Supported by the theatre sponsorship of the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt.

Concept, research, interviews and realization: Eleonora Herder

Content advice and research: Sebastian Schipper

Composition: Jan Mech

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16. Mai – 13. Oktober 2019

Exhibition "How do the people live", Historisches Museum Frankfurt