EINE ZIERDE FÜR DEN VEREIN

EINE ZIERDE FÜR DEN VEREIN
about smoking, sporting, loving and selling
adapted for the stage by Elsa-Sophie Jach and Constanze Kargl, based on the novel of the same name by Marieluise Fleißer

Tobacconist and local swimming star Gustl Gillich falls in love with Frieda Geier, a traveling saleswoman and as such a lone fighter in a male domain. However, when Gustl discovers that love is a business model and Frieda a cheap source of labor, he is abandoned by her and finds solace in misogyny and male bonding. Marieluise Fleißer takes autobiographical cues from her own marriage in her portrayal of the unequal couple.

"The crawler Gustl plows through the water, the flour saleswoman Frieda through Gustl's hopes and a train races towards a bomb. Marieluise Fleißer shows, as if in slow motion, a present that seems frighteningly similar to our own. Her autobiographical novel tells of a youth that becomes dangerously radicalized in the face of an unstable economic and social situation, of the art of high diving and a love that breaks apart." - Elsa-Sophie Jach

Artistic direction
Production: Elsa-Sophie Jach
Stage and costumes: Aleksandra Pavlovic
Composition: Samuel Wootton
Lighting: Barbara Westernach
Dramaturgy: Constanze Kargl