Neubau and Q&A with Tucké Royale

We are delighted that screenwriter and actor Tucké Royale will be present for a Q&A after the screening of Neubau, hosted by Dr. Stephan Ehrig from the University of Glasgow.

Germany 2020 | Director: Johannes Maria Schmit | Duration: 81 Min. | in German with English subtitles | FSK rating (DE): from 12 years

Summer in the province of Brandenburg. Markus is torn between his love for his grandmothers in need of care and his longing for another life in Berlin. In his daydreams, he sees a crowd of shimmering demons as harbingers of a queer urban family of choice that frees him from his loneliness. As he falls in love with Duc, everything gets even more complicated, because the already packed boxes in Markus’ newly-built flat wait to move to Berlin.

About Tucké Royale (book, main actor)

Tucké was born in Quedlinburg in 1984. He works as an author, director, musician and actor and lives in Berlin. Royale studied Jewish Studies at the Free University of Berlin and puppetry at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts, for which he received a highly gifted scholarship from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
His solo plays "Tucké Royale" and "Ich beiße mir auf die Zunge und frühstücke den Belag, den meine Rabeneltern mir hinterlassen" were shown internationally. He has collaborated with Hans Unstern as a ghostwriter and band member since 2012. Royale was a scholarship holder of the Elsa Neumann Foundation of the State of Berlin for the inauguration of the Central Council of Asocials in Germany initiated in 2015. For the social sculpture of the Central Council, he received a work and research grant from the Berlin Senate as First Speaker in 2015. Royale is part of Marta Górnicka's choir that performed the Basic Law in front of the Brandenburg Gate on 3 October 2018 as part of the War or Peace - Crossroads of History 1918/2018 festival.

About Dr Stephan Ehrig

Stephan is a Lecturer in German at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. Before joining Glasgow, he spent four years in Dublin (Ireland) as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the UCD Humanities Institute, preceded by posts at Durham University, and the Institute for Languages, Cultures and Societies (ILCS, former IMLR), University of London.
He studied German Literature and Theology at the Universities of Leipzig (Germany) and Aix-Marseille (France) and received his PhD from the University of Bristol in 2017 with a dissertation on the Marxist appropriation of 19th century author Heinrich von Kleist in East German literature and theatre.