Your Nanny Hates You
Berliners aren’t so familiar with the topic of the immigrant nannies. The Berlin kids probably have some very intellectual educational science student as a baby sitter while their parents are out partying or just having their alone-time. But in Italy and almost all over the western world where the difference between rich and poor is much wider than in Germany there are a lot of middle to upper-class families with a bunch of nannies. Some for the kids some for the grandparents these African, East European, Philippine, Chinese and South American women do not only have to bring their work to the table but also their love. Because how can you possibly educate and grow a child without love. Is this love for 5 dollar an hour a real one? Or do these nannies actually hate these spoiled brats thinking about their own offsprings being alone the whole day? If you’re interested in these kind of questions you should definitely check out the theatre festival Your Nanny Hates You! at the HAU. My special recommendations for you are after the jump.
As you know I can’t assure that the recommendations are really good until I have seen the piece myself. So just take this them as hints on what I thought could be interesting.
The piece Nanay: A Testimonial Play sounds good to me . It’s about the life of a Philippine nanny and it’s in English. Also the pieces Daddy which is in English as well and the piece Die Deutsche Mutter seem to be quite interesting.
Check out the dates at the in the booklet. The festival starts today and runs until June 20.
Your Nanny Hates You – Ein Festival zum Thema Familie
11.06.-20.04.2009
Hebbel Am Ufer
HAU 1: Stresemannstr. 29
HAU 2: Hallesches Ufer 32
HAU 3: Tempelhofer Ufer 10
10963 Berlin
by Claudio
on June 11th, 2009
in Entertainment, Events, Theatre
7 Comments »
June 11th, 2009 at 17:09h
na, das festival hört sich interessant an.
von einer nanny wie in italien aufgezogen werden, könnte ich mir nicht vorstellen. zum glück springen dann die großeltern ein.
June 11th, 2009 at 23:45h
Nachtrag:
Die Kuenstlerin von der das Aufmacherbild stammt heisst Mary Sinbande. Sie kommt aus Suedafrika. Der Titel des Bildes lautet: “They don’t make them like they used to”
June 12th, 2009 at 07:17h
mmmm…should we use “chinese” and “african” in one context? china is one country. africa is about 53 countries. maybe use “for examplpe Afro-German, or Afro-American women”?
June 12th, 2009 at 07:20h
and then i see a connection between the title “hate” and the picture “black woman”. is a little problematic from my point of view, because it reads like a: black is similar to hate”.
..just some thoughts.
June 12th, 2009 at 14:59h
The funny thing is that the person who corrects my english always thinks he should change my text. In the original text there is no african women mentioned because I am aware of the proplematic that not every black person is african.
TO the picture : it is the official picture of the festival like the title is the official title of the festival. So perhaps there is somehow this black and hate connection even if it does not come from us.
I am sure the festival makers did not had any thoughts about that but perhaps they should.
Even If I get the sentence as purely provocative and not as a true statement people could missinterpretate the sentence as a rassist statement.
June 12th, 2009 at 18:35h
cr, i agree. so maybe tell this white man who corrects ur english, to not change the content..
June 12th, 2009 at 23:30h
I added African to the list, because the image showed an African woman and I thought that would make sense. It’s not really a dramatic change, is it? East Europe and South America are not countries either, so it’s a mixed list anyway. Maybe I should not change your texts before I post them, but then you would get a lot of comments about mistakes as well. just a thought.