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Friederike

How do I successfully break up a family celebration for a 100th birthday?

How do I successfully break up a family celebration for a 100th birthday?
The photo of Friedrike, the person celebrating her birthday, hangs on the wall. She had a life under National Socialism, during the war and then in the GDR that was almost impossible to unravel. She hid her war traumas inside herself until her death. Children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren come together on her 100th birthday to remember and find out for themselves what part of Friederike they carry within them. Some make a harmonious effort for a successful celebration, others open up about their wounds and the repressed ones just want peace and quiet. - The attempt succeeds, but only until it crashes.
Feelings on a rollercoaster with oncoming traffic, that can't go well. Klaus is so conformist that he talks down to everyone or takes refuge in cynicism. Marie has made a career as a sports teacher - and as an IM for the Stasi, but nobody knows that until she blabs herself. Janosch is happy in the role of the bully who enjoys getting on everyone's nerves. Sandy takes care of everything, but without acknowledgement or recognition from the others. She flees into alcohol and the AfD. Alex hates Janosch because of a childhood memory, but she hates the wrong person. Tatjana tries - unsuccessfully - to get by. And Andreas pulls strings - in absentia.
Only Friederike looks silently out of her portrait on the wall and remembers other birthdays in her life.

Staged reading
Text: Eike Besuden, Petra-Janina Schultz.
Read by: Simon Elias, Franziska Mencz, Michael Meyer, Norhild Reinicke, Markus Seuß, Magdalena Julia Simmel, Kathrin Steinweg, Isabel Zeumer, Andrea zum Felde.
Spoken text: Ulrike Knospe.

Price information:

normal: 25 € reduced: 19 €