ALSO TRÄUMEN WIR MIT HELLWACHER VERNUNFT

In the organizer's words:

Christa Wolf, a world-class author, was a resolute citizen of the GDR - closely connected to the country in which she wrote, for which she fought, to which she doubted, to which she consciously remained loyal. Everyday life and big questions, the personal and the political, myth and history: Christa Wolf transformed these dimensions of existence into a space of possibility for poetry. As she withstood the contradictions of society as well as her own, she became a moral authority for many. At the same time, her texts are also memories of a lost country. This evening of theater thus combines a poet's life with a chronicle of the GDR. Born in 1929, her journey through the century moves between new beginnings and farewells, between hope and disillusionment. The initially childishly enthusiastic Nazi supporter becomes a convinced anti-fascist who believes in socialism. But later, in the leaden times, she has to realize that the repressive, male-dominated power structures in real existing socialism destroy her utopia. Because she is concerned with sincerity, she questions all prescribed certainties - and discovers the power of a subjective, female perspective on the world. The power of the common good and kindness as an alternative to capital, competition, consumption and the Cold War. As a loyal dissident, she resists - as best she can.