Cammerspiele - Es gibt keine Wale im Wilmersee

In the organizer's words:

a novel by Laura Dürrschmidt
Stage adaptation by Alina Antonov & Johann Christoph Awe
World premiere

"There are things that belong to the water."

When the winter is cold enough, Lake Wilmer freezes over and you can walk across the ice to the small forest island. The winter when the narrator was eight was cold. But not cold enough. That winter she lost Alice and her name to the lake.

Since then, people have stopped speaking in her family. And as the language disappears, so do the people - the mother, the father, the sister. The narrator withdraws completely into her memories, into a time when her mother told her stories about the whales in Lake Wilmer and the dark, empty house was still full of life. Until one day Jora appears at the door, who is not satisfied with silence.

There are no whales in Lake Wilmer is a play about memories. About loss. About silence and absence. A play about stories that we are told and tell ourselves. About reality and our own truths. And apples. And moths.

Acting: Johanna Franke & Patricia Franke
Voices: Alina Antonov, Felix Kerkhoff, Nathalie Jaworski & Sven Glatzmaier
Director: Johann Christoph Awe
Dramaturgy & audio collage: Alina Antonov
Assistant directors: Thekla Edler & Victoria Weber

Laura Dürrschmidt's debut novel Es gibt keine Wale im Wilmersee was published in 2021 by Ecco Verlag in the HarperCollins Deutschland GmbH publishing group (Hamburg). The stage rights are also held there.

The production is a collaboration between the Cammerspiele Leipzig and Neues Schauspiel Leipzig.

Price information:

Tickets: solidarity price system (you choose a price category according to your ability): 15,- / 12,- / 8,- € (plus advance booking fee)