Under Surveillance: My File at Branch 215
The live documentary performance “Dossier 4217” was presented at Kulturzentrum Pavillon in Hanover. In the performance, journalist Amer Matar, Director of the Prisons Museum, read from his personal security dossier, tracing how writing, surveillance, and wiretapping developed into arrest within Syria’s intelligence apparatus.
- Role
- Text, reading and documentary performance
- Date
- 5 Sep 2026
- Venue
- Kulturzentrum Pavillon · Hanover
About the performance
The live documentary performance “Dossier 4217” was presented at Kulturzentrum Pavillon in Hanover. In the performance, journalist Amer Matar, Director of the Prisons Museum, read from his personal security dossier, tracing how writing, surveillance, and wiretapping developed into arrest within Syria’s intelligence apparatus.





