Zeit ohne Gefühle

In the organizer's words:

The past never fades

Feldafing is located just outside Munich on Lake Starnberg. A wonderful place to relax, where Sisi and Thomas Mann also spent their vacations. But there is another side to Feldafing's history. A closer look reveals various layers of the German past. Between 1934 and 1945, the town was home to the "Reichsschule", a training center for the Nazi elite. After the end of the Second World War, the abandoned grounds of the school were transformed overnight into a camp for "displaced persons", a reception camp for Jews who had survived the concentration camp. Today, a Bundeswehr barracks is located on this very site. Feldafing: a burning glass of German history?

Author and journalist Lena Gorelik looks at this burning glass. For the Münchner Kammerspiele, she is writing a play that searches for the strands of the past in the present and looks at the connections between memory and the present. The life of Holocaust survivor Mordechai Teichner, who came to Feldafing at the age of 15, serves as a guiding thread through the narrative, which interweaves different levels of the past with the immediate present. The play is partly based on conversations with Mordechai and Meir Teichner as well as the book "Traum und Albtraum. Feldafing under National Socialism and in the post-war period" by Marita Krauss and Erich Kasberger.

"We have come to terms. We have remembered. We have learned. That is our German fairy tale, told in the perfect tense. Do we have that? What happens when the tenses flow into each other, when the perfect tense becomes a present tense, a future tense?"

- Lena Gorelik