EINE ZIERDE FÜR DEN VEREIN

In the organizer's words:

AN ORNAMENT FOR THE CLUB. About smoking, sports, love and selling
from the novel of the same name by Marieluise Fleißer

adapted for the stage by Elsa-Sophie Jach and Constanze Kargl

Tobacconist and local swimming star Gustl Gillich falls in love with Frieda Geier, a traveling saleswoman and as such a lone fighter in a male domain. However, when Gustl discovers that love is a business model and Frieda is cheap labor, he is abandoned by her and finds solace in misogyny and male bonding. Marieluise Fleißer takes autobiographical cues from her own marriage in her portrayal of the unequal couple.

"The crawler Gustl plows through the water, the flour saleswoman Frieda through Gustl's hopes and a train races towards a bomb. Marieluise Fleißer shows, as if in slow motion, a present that seems frighteningly similar to our own. Her autobiographical novel tells of a youth that becomes dangerously radicalized in the face of an unstable economic and social situation, of the art of high diving and a love that falls apart." - Elsa-Sophie Jach

Artistic direction

Production: Elsa-Sophie Jach

Stage and costumes: Aleksandra Pavlovic

Composition: Samuel Wootton

Lighting: Barbara Westernach

Dramaturgy: Constanze Kargl

Price information:

10 euros for pupils, students, trainees and volunteers up to 30 years of age