BILDER DEINER GROSSEN LIEBE

It's summer, Isa has escaped from a psychiatric ward and is now on foot on a kind of road trip through the country. "The stars are wandering, and I'm wandering too," says Isa. She is 14 and so much more than that. If you want, you can find the whole world in her. Lightness and heaviness, present and memory, death and life. "Isabel, ruler of the universe, the planets and everything. When I want the sun to stand, the sun stands," she claims, and the further you trudge barefoot through the world with her, the more unequivocal this statement becomes. Isa has her own way of thinking, her own reality with her own - or no - rules. She relentlessly exposes herself to life and all its facets. She faces every encounter on this journey with such unconditional intensity, mixed with naivety, curiosity, courage, strength and determination, that you stand by in amazement. Sometimes you want to be warned and sometimes you just want to experience it unconditionally. A bargeman, a writer, a child, a dead hunter... - and somewhere in between Tschick and Maik. At this point, Herrendorf's two novels TSCHICK and BILDER DEINER GROßEN LIEBE are linked almost by chance, yet remain separate works. The girl from the garbage dump is now the protagonist and we experience the meeting of the two boys, who are on their way to Wallachia in the Lada, from her point of view.

PICTURES OF YOUR GREAT LOVE is the last and unfinished novel by the author, who was unable to finish it due to the progression of his cancer. In some places, PICTURES OF YOUR GREAT LOVE remains fragmentary, which once again emphasizes Isa's way of thinking. Isa is as crazy as Büchner's Lenz, as lost as Robert Walser's Jakob von Gunten and as cold as Camus' Stranger, writes Iris Radisch in DIE ZEIT on September 19, 2014 shortly before publication, placing Herrndorf's novel fragment among the great works of world literature.

Theater Bonn will stage the text for young people aged 14 and over on its workshop stage and give them the opportunity to take this journey with Isa and enter into a dialog with her questions and themes.