Gabriele Brüning // Fräulein Else

Secret of success? There is no such thing in this case. The reason why we like to show Gabriele Brüning's solo performance "Fräulein Else" again and again is obvious: it is simply fantastic, stunningly multi-faceted and psycho-crime thrilling. Arthur Schnitzler wrote the novella on which it is based in 1924, a few decades before the #MeToo debate. The 19-year-old Else is commissioned by her mother to ask the rich art dealer Dorsday for a handsome sum of money. The moneybags agrees, but in return demands to see the young woman naked for a quarter of an hour. An immoral offer that plunges the heroine into furious indignation, sexual fantasies and the struggle for emancipation. Brüning brings this stream of thought to life in a playful, readable and electrifying way. Long since a Münster classic.

100min, with intermission
German spoken language

By and with Gabriele Brüning Based on the novella by Arthur Schnitzler Photo Andreas Ladwig