Alte Liebe

In the organizer's words:

Bob Dylan sang "The Times They Are a-Changin'", Chancellor Scholz spoke of a turning point, Wolf Biermann knew that "Only those who change remain true to themselves". And Lore and Harry? A lot has changed there too. They are getting on in years, their wild times are over, their summer of love has turned into late fall. After all, despite all the adversities of a free-spirited existence, they have managed to be married for more than 30 years. And they want to keep it that way.

But how? The bustling Lore is very busy in the literary world. Grumpy Harry, on the other hand, is a retired building councilor who occasionally enjoys a wheat beer and looks after the delphinium in his garden. Lore, however, fears that Harry will spend the rest of his life looking after the delphinium in his garden and occasionally enjoying a wheat beer. So they tease each other through their days. Somehow loving each other, but at the same time getting on each other's nerves.

But then something happens that makes them pull together again: Daughter Gloria gets married. And for the third time. And then the snooty son of a "real estate scumbag", as Harry puts it. But then he develops "a grim sense of fun about the whole thing" and sees it as "a refresher course for his old anti-capitalist fighting spirit". So off to the wedding. And in the old corduroy jacket.

"A wonderfully easy-flowing dialog novel that ultimately weighs heavily. A stage-ready capriccio." Mathias Schreiber, "Der Spiegel"

Elke Heidenreich wrote the novel "Alte Liebe" together with her old love Bernd Schroeder, to whom she was married for a good while. "We had twenty happy years, five brave ones, two horrible ones and now our peace," she once summed up in "Brigitte". She then turned the novel into a play, which is now being performed in Frankfurt for the first time.

An in-house production of the Stalburg Theater

Price information:

Discounted tickets for 8 euros for students, pupils, trainees, FSJ and BFD volunteers and Frankfurt Pass holders at the Box Office (subject to availability).