Reading Performance: ALMAN’ACH

Tunay Önder reads from her new book ALMAN’ACH, accompanied by noise artist Anton Kaun aka Rumpeln. How does resistance sound in present-day Schland? Between everyday life and state of emergency, private and political, Alman’ach & Krach sets out in search of the right tone. Sometimes brutal, sometimes at a loss, mostly cheerful – and always with sunflower seeds in its luggage. Monologues meet manifestos, spelling charts meet grammar exercises, post-national anthems meet apartment listings. Scraps, fragments and loose ends come together to form a collage in which the intangible heritage of migrant society takes on new forms. Small rituals, acoustic bits and linguistic shifts condense into a panorama of the post-migrant present. Because whoever says A as in Ayşe must also say B as in Babo. Not to mention C as in Chabo. Alman’ach & Krach is an invitation to listen, run away and nibble sunflower seeds all at once.