Fischer Fritz

In the organizer's words:

After a stroke, old fisherman Fritz is no longer able to fish. But moving out of the house by the river, where his father and grandfather used to ply the family trade, is out of the question for the widower. Franz, his only son, is unfortunately not much help, as he has turned his back on the province to open a hairdressing salon in Munich. He neither wants to continue fishing nor look after his father. As Fritz is reluctant to move into a nursing home, Piotra, a Polish carer, is hired to move to the Bavarian hinterland to take over the former fisherman's care. She looks after the grumpy old man around the clock, six days a week. Apart from listening to music, Piotra's only chance to escape the confines of the world is to chat with Borys, the bus driver who brought her here and will eventually pick her up again. The initial distance between Piotra and Fritz, which is mainly due to communication difficulties, dissolves over time, however, because Piotra knows exactly how to prepare fresh fish for fisherman Fritz.

The Munich-based author Raphaela Bardutzky allows her characters to discard external attributions in a light-hearted way and take on the perspective of the other person or even a narrative entity. This tongue-twisting language game questions our ideas of home, age and foreignness with great empathy.