Der blinde Passagier

THE BLIND PASSENGER

By Maria Lazar

Young Nina Petersen is at sea with her father and brother. The family owns a small ship that trades on coasts not too far away. They hear about what is happening on land on the radio. Times are tough, economically and politically. A dispute breaks out between Nina's brother Carl and Jörgen, her fiancé, about the political situation in the country they are trading with. The dispute becomes a moral issue and ultimately a question of survival when all the crew members gradually realize that there is a stowaway on board who has had to flee his country of origin.

Maria Lazar wrote this linguistically and politically precise play in exile in Denmark in 1938, under the influence of her own escape from National Socialism in Vienna. No theater in Copenhagen dared to perform the text.

With this work, Ebru Tartıcı Borchers combines her interest in the history and present of flight and migration with her fascination for Maria Lazar's language and character drawing.