On the trail of ethnic settlers
The followers of the Anastasia movement settle in rural areas throughout Germany. Modern technology, medicine, electricity and running water are not available there. Gender roles and child-rearing or even dress codes are clearly regulated in the "national community".
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The lifestyle model attracts with closeness to nature and spirituality - but the idyll quickly turns out to be a place of radical right-wing worldview with connections to the Reich Citizens and neo-Nazi scenes.
The blood and soil ideology of the Anastasia movement is based on a Russian fantasy novel series. In the ten-volume Rihne, author Vladimir Megre depicts a paradisiacal place of self-sufficient life around the mysterious Anastasia. Her vision: people should provide for themselves on "family estates" in harmony with nature. She believes in the transformative power of love, the healing effect of herbs and the energy of the spirit.
In the 3,000 pages of the work with the same title "Anastasia", Megre develops ethnic ideology, racist theories and theories of a "Jewish world conspiracy" under the cloak of "harmless" esotericism.
Following the fictional series, "family estates" with organic farming have been built since 1996, initially in Eastern Europe, and soon also in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
"Anastasia - On the trail of ethnic settlers" is a documentary theatrical journey behind the scenes of the sect-like life of settlers. Three performers explore various aspects of the movement in a sensual, playful and professionally informative way based on original text sources.
(PROGRAM IN GERMAN)
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Dates
May 2025
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