DIE LETZTE KÖNIGIN / FESTIVAL MEDIA LIBRARY
Édith Voges Nana Tchuinang
What is it like to be a Black actress? What role is there for her in German theatre? What happens to the appropriation of cultural heritage, such as the statue of Queen Ngonnso? The artist and performer Édith Voges Nana Tchuinang asks herself these questions and combines them into a coherent narrative. In the film DIE LETZTE KÖNIGIN (The Last Queen), she embarks on various journeys and explores the diverse stories of Black women. This brings the time before Cameroon became a German colony and its emancipatory potential into our present.
The film is a direct confrontation with the historiography and practices of the global North. An opening up of spaces at the interface between the documentary and the imaginary.
Cast & Credits:
With: Édith Voges Nana Tchuinang, Nils Voges, François Alima, Aimé Mama, Rika Sakalak, Katharina Onguene, Vittoria Lenz
A production by Édith Voges Nana Tchuinang in co-operation with the Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, supported by the Diversity Fund of the Ministry of Art and Science of the State of NRW.
About the artist
Édith Voges Nana Tchuinang, German-Cameroonian director and actress, began her career at the OTHNI – Laboratoire de Théâtre de Yaoundé in Cameroon. She has lived and worked in Germany since 2016, with performances at the Hagen Theatre, Schauspiel Dortmund, Schauspiel Bochum, Ringlokschuppen Ruhr and tak – Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg, among others. She has been writing and directing her own projects since 2022. Her work focuses on (Black) feminism, empowerment, post-colonialism and new narratives for the 21st century, in particular the coexistence of different people and genders. In her project DIE LETZTE KÖNIGIN she explores untold women’s stories from both cultures in order to develop new narratives that liberate people from the shackles of capitalism, colonialism, racism and sexism.
