DER TRAFIKANT

In the organizer's words:

In the late summer of 1937, when her lover drowns in a lake during a thunderstorm, her mother sees no other way out due to his lack of money: her son must go to the city and find a job. She sends him to an old childhood friend - Otto Trsnjek, a war invalid from the First World War, has a tobacco and newspaper shop in Vienna where the boy is assured of a job and a place to stay. From then on, a lot changes in the adolescent's life: His first love for the tempestuous Bohemian girl Aneszka and his exciting acquaintance with the famous founder of psychoanalysis, Professor Sigmund Freud. In the newspapers and on the streets of the big city, the rapid social and political changes leading up to the annexation of Austria by the German Reich ruled by Hitler are revealed. One day, when the Gestapo take Otto Trsnjek away from the tobacconist and Sigmund Freud also announces plans to emigrate to England, Franz finds himself in a hopeless situation. . .

A gripping and tender story about growing up, the fragility of happiness and an unequal friendship in dark times.

Robert Seethaler's novel was published in 2012 and premiered by the Esslinger Landesbühne in 2016. Seethaler, born in Vienna in 1966, was awarded the Buddenbrook House Debut Prize in 2007 for his novel "Die Biene und der Kurt". In addition to novels, he also writes screenplays and works as an actor. DER TRAFIKANT was filmed in 2018 with Bruno Ganz in the role of Sigmund Freud. Robert Seethaler lives and writes in Vienna and Berlin.

Price information:

Price category 1 (rows 1-4) € 32 Price category 2 (rows 5-7) € 28 Price category 3 (rows 8-10) € 25 Free admission with Kultursemesterticket!