Jahrestage – aus dem Leben der Gesine Cresspahl

In the organizer's words:

Day by day, over the course of a year, Gesine Cresspahl tells her ten-year-old daughter Marie about her own family history. Life in Mecklenburg in the Weimar Republic, during Nazi rule, in the subsequent Soviet occupation zone and the first years in the GDR.

At the same time, the novel depicts the everyday life of mother and daughter in the metropolis of New York, where they emigrated in the 1950s, in the epochal year 1967/1968. In "Jahrestage", Uwe Johnson unfolds a unique panorama of German history in the 20th century - a "reading world tour" into the turbulent New York present of 1968 and at the same time into the story of a German family in the fictitious small town of Jerichow in Mecklenburg.

The performance with Caren Miosga and Charly Hübner, music/piano Ninon Gloger, is a journey through the narrative stream of the 1,875-page novel and shows exemplary characters, episodes, conversations, memories, reports and newspaper reports from the New York Times and everyday events of 1967/1968 in New York in the midst of Vietnam War and student protests and the preparations for the invasion of Soviet troops into the C.S.S.R..

Exciting, entertaining, touching and socio-politically topical.

Price information:

St. Pauli Theater ticket hotline: (040) 4711 0 666, st-pauli-theater.de and at all known advance booking offices