DORFGESCHICHTEN »TITOS BRILLE« LESUNG MIT WALTER SITTLER

Village stories

"tito's glasses"

Reading with Walter Sittler

Actor Walter Sittler reads from the autobiographical novel "titos brille" by Adriana Altaras.

The actress and director Adriana Altaras leads a completely normal, chaotic and unorthodox life in Berlin: with two soccer-loving sons and a Westphalian husband who stoically puts up with her Jewish neuroses - until her parents die and she inherits an apartment that hasn't been cleaned out for forty years.

From now on, a curious journey through the legacy of a strained family begins. Moving letters and ancient photos are discovered, as well as questionable secrets that could have remained hidden. Altaras tells the story of unequal sisters, of a father who always wanted to be a hero and of a mother full of energy and loneliness in an ironic, straightforward and shy manner, but with plenty of warmth and humor. About exile, crazy Jewish festivals and a dust allergy caused by German television - and about the many fascinating mosaic pieces that make up a life. A turbulent family story that follows its traces across Europe and the turbulent 20th century, always reconciling the past and the here and now.