Philipp Schaeffer

Melanie, a hairdresser, drives her son Stefan, a young author, to the first reading of his autobiographical debut novel DER SALON.

An augmented reality experience that offers the viscerality of a psychologically taxing children's fable merging with the physicality of our world as you come home cold and tired, just in time for a bedtime story. In this interactive narrative the characters are just hollow meshes but maybe so are you.

While the youth of Chemnitz is seeking its way into adulthood, the former GDR industrial menopolis is struggling to guide them along the way.