Fabian Zapatka

In 2019 Manfred Zapatka ended his more than 50-year-long career in the theater at the
Residenz Theater in Munich. An outstanding actor, he represents a generation of Germanlanguage
ensemble theatermakers that has recently been retiring. The photographer Fabian
Zapatka (*1978) decided to accompany his father as he bid his farewell. His photographic
piece Vater (Father) starts in the world of the Munich theater. The end of their journey is
marked by his father's retreat to his parents' home in Cloppenburg, Lower Saxony, where
he spent his childhood. The old house in the old hometown, which stood empty for nearly
thirty years, will become his new home.