Ich bin Astrid aus Småland

In the organizer's words:

She created stories that everyone knows, characters that people all over the world love: Astrid Lindgren. When she was born, women did not yet have the right to vote, married women were under the guardianship of their husbands and the social meeting place in her home town of Vimmerby was the fair. When she died, the world was a different place, after two world wars, the flight to the moon and the sexual revolution. Her biography is a beguiling journey through the 20th century, which is also represented by the characters in her books: Pippi Longstocking, Michel from Lönneberga, Mio.

In this humorous and touching evening of theater, Gesine Cukrowski slips into the role of the great Swedish children's author. In a rousing stage monologue, she tells the story of Astrid Lindgren's "escape" to Stockholm, away from her family, unmarried and pregnant.

Director and author Martin Mühleis and composer Libor Síma have been working together extremely successfully for twenty years, and the story of Astrid Lindgren is their most recent joint stage work.

Libor Síma composed the incidental music for saxophone, melodica, banjo, guitar and double bass, Martin Mühleis wrote the text for this stage monologue from countless interviews that Astrid Lindgren gave in her life and created the overall scenic concept. As has been the case for many years, Hamburg lighting designer Birte Horst completes the tried and tested team.

Text editing, production and direction: Martin Mühleis
Recitation and acting: Gesine Cukrowski
Composition, saxophone: Libor Síma
Acoustic guitar, banjo: Barbara Jungfer
Double bass: Henrik Mumm
Costumes: Vera Löffler
With Gesine Cukrowski and Hennes Gäng

A production of the sagas.ensemble Stuttgart