Lila Fetzen ("Purple Scraps") focuses on the Schönhauser Allee underground station and connects different layers of time above and below ground. Two large-format billboard at the underground station recall the East German womxn's movement, especially the Lila Offensive, which was founded in Prenzlauer Berg in the late 1980s.

A collective, participatory performance on September 20 takes the historical photographs as a starting point for a search for gestures of solidarity, resistance, and visibility in queer life today. The 60-minute performance runs from the Schönhauser Allee underground station to the Schönfließer Brücke and is then available online as a documentary.

35 years after The Peaceful Revolution, Lila Fetzen commemorates, a movement that officially did not exist and whose very existence was often questioned. Over the course of the 1980s, more than 100 different womxn’s groups were formed in the GDR. Operating under strict censorship and a ban on all non-state gatherings, they could exist only unofficially. They met regularly for discussion circles, themed evenings, and weekend seminars, producing posters, flyers, and internal newsletters. Very little of this reached the public—most of it remained within the groups themselves. Since self-organized associations were not officially permitted in the GDR and could result in sanctions, these groups were forced to operate largely in secrecy or under the umbrella of the church.

The performance Lila Fetzen emerged after extensive research through several workshops based on texts and photographs from the Archiv Grauzone, created in collaboration with A. Monti, Anna Paßlick, Carol Peters, Ellen Louise Weise, Lea Baro, Marion Fabian, Melissa Skarmeta Moraga, Rahel “Raps” Wend, and Wilma Molt, with text contributions by Maxi Wander, A. Monti, Anna Paßlick, Carol Peters, Ellen Louise Weise, Lea Baro, Melissa Skarmeta Moraga, Rahel “Raps” Wend, and Wilma Molt.