Die Kopenhagen-Trilogie – Premiere

In the organizer's words:

SCHAUSPIEL

Little House

based on the novels by Tove Ditlevsen
translated from the Danish by Ursel Allenstein
Version by Anja Behrens and Regula Schröter
Director: Anja Behrens

Tove Ditlevsen grows up in a working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen in the 1920s. She feels alienated in her own life because she wants to write. "A girl can't become a poet," says her father. At the age of 14, she dares to take her poetry album full of poems to a newspaper - and is rejected. Although she had to drop out of school to work as a domestic servant and later as an office assistant, she pursued her dream undeterred, publishing poems, stories and later novels. Like Annie Ernaux, Ditlevsen dissects her own self in her autofictional novels and tells with unsparing openness of a childhood and youth marked by loneliness and fear, of an adult life full of contradictions, of the struggle for an identity as an artist, woman and mother against the backdrop of social and political reality.