Clara & Friedrich - Die Revolution muss tanzbar sein

A play about the life of peace activist Clara Zetkin, told from the perspective of her two sons at the Theater der Altstadt

The play
"It all began with an extraordinary marriage. In 1899, the painter Friedrich Zundel and our mother, the journalist Clara Zetkin, married at the Stuttgart registry office. Extraordinary because the bride was 42 years old, the groom just 24. In addition, the woman brought us two sons, aged 16 and 14, into the marriage. The motor of international solidarity and the international workers' movement had an interesting office in Stuttgart."

The protagonists of the musical play are the two sons Maxim and Kostja Zetkin. Their perspective is a flywheel, accelerated to the maximum rated speed about the life, work, and time of their mother, the German Empire, World War 1, the Weimar Republic to the year 1933. Nothing must stop. Everything must go on. No work is finished. Completion is death and death is an imposition.

The peace activist Clara Zetkin not only recognized the dangers of rising fascism early on, but also became one of the most recognized champions of women's equality at the beginning of the 20th century. Thus, on March 8, 1911, International Women's Day was celebrated for the first time on her initiative. In Berlin, March 8 has been an official holiday since 2019. Women's suffrage in Germany was already enforced by Clara Zetkin in 1918.

More info: www.claraundfriedrich.de