Avant Skincare Fussnoten

Footnotes is, at first glance, a train journey through the suburbs of Hamburg, a situation that couldn't be more ordinary. Yet at the edges of the things that the protagonist Nacha experiences, small numbers appear, referencing deeper information. Here below, in the realm of footnotes, the events unfold that underpin what is happening in the present. German and Argentine realities and pasts overlap – just like the blueprints of Argentine cities and the pattern of the train seat covers. The reader accompanies the narrator on a quest for traces of her European-descended Argentine family, which suffered for many years under the military dictatorship of the 1970s. The tumultuous fate of her ancestors is closely intertwined with her life as a young woman in a German metropolis. Nacha Vollenweider develops this in her work.