HEIMSUCHUNG (Premiere B)

1 hour before the start of the performance there is an introduction with interesting background information!

A house on a lake just outside Berlin, a true idyll, witnesses a century of rushing transformations. The German Empire, World War II, reconstruction and the period of change. People are born, live, fade away. Idealists and careerists, patriarchs and free thinkers, soldiers, emigrants and returnees. In twelve interwoven life stories, the place tells of people's longing for a place of peace, of insurmountable borders, of love, death - and the search for home. A kaleidoscope of the human condition, told with poetic force by Nobel Prize nominee Jenny Erpenbeck.

In her 2008 novel, Jenny Erpenbeck (*1967) processes childhood memories of her grandparents in a house on Lake Scharmützel. The author and theater director's works have been translated into 30 languages and have received numerous awards, including the Thomas Mann Prize. In 2024, she was the first German to receive the International Booker Prize for her novel Kairos (2021) about a writer's love in East Berlin in the 1980s. HEIMSUCHUNG was included in the Guardian's list of the "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" in 2019 and is current reading material for the central Abitur in NRW.