In the organizer's words:

based on the novel by Jenny Erpenbeck

German history rages in a house in Brandenburg: Jenny Erpenbeck conjures up 15 people and fates that populate this house over a period of 100 years and are deposited, overlap, reflect, cross and break in it. From the German Empire to the Weimar Republic, National Socialism, the GDR and the post-reunification period, a panorama of German realities and the violence inherent in every system and every era unfolds. The residents of the house are the perpetrators and victims of this violence, they are victims of the times and their lives bear witness to the fact that political and social change is based on repression and occupation. All fates are united by an individual search for home and happiness, the fulfillment of which is always only temporary - before the wheel of history continues to turn and turns those who have arrived into displaced persons. Jenny Erpenbeck, winner of the International Man Booker Prize, also deals with her own (East) German origins in "Heimsuchung" and examines the relationship between contemporary history and the individual.

Production: Adrian Figueroa

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