ERINNERUNG EINES MÄDCHENS

In the organizer's words:

A GIRL'S MEMORY
by Annie Ernaux

Translated from the French by Sonja Finck Stage adaptation by Silvia Costa

1 hour 20 minutes
No intermission

Age recommendation: from 14 years

In her autobiographical story "A Girl's Memory", published in 2016, French author Annie Ernaux attempts to trace a deeply formative event in her life. What happened to her, the then eighteen-year-old young woman, in the summer of 1958? Between fragments of memories, diary entries, letters and decades-old photographs, the author undertakes an almost forensic analysis of what happened, its effects and the social conditions and sexual double standards that tend to grant or deny men and women completely different forms of "freedom". "A Girl's Memory" shows the almost eighty-year-old's painful confrontation with sexual shame, powerlessness and self-empowerment and - published shortly before the start of the #MeToo movement - is a touching and deeply political document of the end of silence.

"She is intoxicated by her freedom, the extent of her freedom."

ARTISTIC DIRECTION

Production and stage direction Silvia Costa
Composition and collaboration director Ayumi Paul
Costumes Rebekka Stange
Collaboration stage Anna Schöttl
Lighting Barbara Westernach
Dramaturgy Ewald Palmetshofer

Price information:

10€ for students