"China, mein Vater und ich"

Who owns what and why? How are property and democracy connected and what role does the state play? How does property shape us and our relationships with others?

A lot is currently in motion: In times of economic and ecological crises, growing social inequality and technological change, a variety of conflicts over private property are being fought out, but alternative ideas of ownership are also being developed and tried out. However, property is not only a controversial institution of capitalist societies, but is so omnipresent and taken for granted in everyday social life that it is often not even explicitly addressed. Property also leaves its traces where we do not see or suspect it.

In a joint series, the Collaborative Research Centre "Structural Change of Property" at the Universities of Jena and Erfurt and the Jena Theatre House are bringing property to the stage. We go in search of traces in literature, novels, stories and biographies, because the question of ownership is not only an economic and political one, but is also rich in stories, emotions, experiences and individual challenges.