Tofufabrik was founded toward the end of the 1990s by György Debreceni and Heike Hellerung, pioneers of the “bio tofu scene” in Hessen. What started as a small, local supplier of organic bean curd became one of the main suppliers of tofu products throughout Germany. When the factory’s small-scale production could no longer handle the high demand, it was sold to a much larger dairy concern in neighboring Neukirchen. The Tofufabrik is now the screening space for Commensal (2017), a new film installation by Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor. Their work explores the complicated story of Issei Sagawa, who gained notoriety in 1981 when, as a graduate student in Paris, he murdered a fellow student and engaged in acts of cannibalism.
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