Anti War Women

Looking back at the year 1915 and the First World War, "Anti War Women" searches for courageous visions for the here and now. The Munich women Lida Gustava Heymann and Anita Augspurg organize a women's peace congress in The Hague against all odds. The doctor Hope Bridges Adams-Lehmann mediates between her native England and her adopted home of Germany. "Anti War Women" uncovers access to buried stories of civil disobedience and political action. In musical evocations, the actors lend their bodies to the voices of visionary women who opposed the war, but also to the violence that they and those around them experienced directly in 1915. What do their visions and strategies of resistance tell us in recurring times of war? Jessica Glause and her team already generated a great response and not least musical inspiration with "Bavarian Suffragettes" (season 20/21). Now their focus on the Munich women's movement continues and spans internationally.

Content warning: Description of sexual violence and war