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A curator, an archivist, an art dealer, a relative: in staged situations, four people discuss their relationship to an artist who, by means of a fictionalised biography, has impersonated a Holocaust victim.

The script is based on audio interviews, in which various experts were asked about their personal views on the biography of outsider artist Rosemarie Koczy, who passed away in 2007. Rosemarie Koczy had presumably claimed falsely to be a Holocaust survivor from the 1990s onwards.

As part of the screenplay production, audio interviews were conducted with people familiar with the case or the person Rosemarie Koczy. These were: the curators Hans-Jürgen Schwalm and Ferdinand Ulrich, the head of the Reckling-hausen city archive Matthias Kordes, the former first deputy of the city of Recklinghausen Georg Möllers, the art historian Christian Walda and one gallerist. These interviews were then transcribed and, together with existing research material, condensed into a script consisting of five monologues. These monologues were staged with actors in theater-like situations. The stage consists of relatively sparsely designed, allusive spatial settings, with props that can spontaneously be read as being documentary in nature, but which do not conceal their artificiality.

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