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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
Amer Matar presenting the live documentary performance Dossier 4217 at Kulturzentrum Pavillon in Hanover
Amer Matar reading from Dossier 4217 on stage in Hanover
Security-file material projected during the live performance Dossier 4217 in Hanover
Discussion following the live documentary performance Dossier 4217 in Hanover
The stage and printed dossier material prepared for Dossier 4217 in Hanover
Amer Matar reading from his personal security dossier during Dossier 4217 in 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.

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