LesArt.Festival: Peter Jordan - Kein schöner Land

In the organizer's words:

Father was at war - son plays Nazis: our ambivalent history

Peter Jordan says of himself that there is never a day when he doesn't think about the war and the Shoah.

Born in 1967, the actor is still struggling to find the right relationship to German culture. In his younger years, like many of his generation, he considered everything German to be suspicious and musty. But with the birth of his child, he faced the task of naming and communicating what was his own.

'Kein schöner Land' is an autobiographical, narrative essay that is highly topical, because the question of what Germany is and can be is being asked with increasing acuity both within Germany by right-wing extremists and internationally. One thing is clear: we can no longer duck away. Peter Jordan dares to give an answer that is as personal as it is fearless.

Peter Jordan, born in Dortmund in 1967, studied acting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg from 1991 to 1994 after studying human medicine. Engagements followed at the Theater Rostock and from 1995 to 2000 at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. From 2000 to 2009, Peter Jordan was a member of the ensemble at the Thalia Theater, Hamburg. Peter Jordan has appeared in numerous film and television productions, including Tatort-Kommissar in Hamburg from 2008 to 2011. In 2003, Peter Jordan was awarded the Berlin Academy of the Arts Award. Since 2009, Peter Jordan has lived and worked as a freelance actor, director and playwright in Berlin.