VIELLEICHT HAB ICH DAS NIE SO GESAGT

Filia is in her early 20s, has her degree under her belt, has set up her first apartment, and has truly cut the umbilical cord. The tax office? Health insurance? Easy! Friedrich Merz? Pff. Her ascendant is Sagittarius and her moon sign is “Doer”—that jerk can’t touch her.

Even the fact that she doesn’t know how to use a washing machine doesn’t faze her. Mom’s just a phone call away, after all. But then, on the phone—between the wash and spin cycles—she hears that one phrase every mom has down pat:

“When are you coming home next?”

And suddenly there it is—the lump in her throat. The invisible backpack full of memories, unspoken words, expectations, hurts, and feelings of guilt. And the question that won’t let Filia go:

Who was my mother, really? I mean, before she became my mother?

Starring: Filia Herden

Dramaturgy & Direction: Patric Welzbacher

Assistant: Max Düppenbecker

Lighting: Hera Wehrig & Jonathan Birk

Supported by the Cultural Affairs Office of the City of Cologne