Faschingsdienstag 1945 - Ein interaktives Theaterstück

In 1956, three young women in Bad Harzburg, Lower Saxony, write their A-levels. They write very personal texts about their childhood during the war, nights in air raid shelters and the experience of flight and expulsion. In 2017, Caroline Tajib-Schmeer came across these texts - because they were written by her mother and her classmates. These testimonies to the horrors of the years 1933 to 1945 made a deep impression on the director. So deeply, in fact, that she decided to turn them into a play.

In her play, Tajib-Schmeer not only lets her 82-year-old mother have her say, but also young people from today who talk to the contemporary witness about their experiences in the Third Reich. Their own memories, questions and thoughts - all of this is given space during the performance. The audience is invited to actively participate in the play by writing. The war and post-war years in Germany are also brought to life through a mixture of theater, song, dance and film. Three actresses take the audience into the emotional world of the three girls of that time, from deeply sad to cheerfully exuberant, and thus create a multi-layered picture of this period. For four years now, the play, which is sponsored by the Cultural Department of the City of Munich, has been performed regularly throughout Germany.

Faschingsdienstag 1945 is an interactive, intergenerational play for school classes and senior citizens with a talk and workshop.

Participation free of charge. Registration and further information at nsdoku.de/program.