Kostprobe: Die Bagage

In the organizer's words:

Introduction and rehearsal visit. If you would like to know what to expect from our new productions and upcoming concerts before the premiere, the taster sessions are the right place for you. They offer anyone interested the opportunity to get an insight into our program in advance - free of charge! This time: "Die Bagage", a play by Monika Helfer, which premieres on September 12 in the Kleines Haus of the Stadttheater.

About the play:

At the edge of the inhabited world, way back in the valley, up on the mountain lives the Bagage: Mary and Joseph with their four children. When the First World War breaks out, Josef has to join up and asks the mayor to look after his beautiful wife, as he knows the men in the village. Soon afterwards, Maria is pregnant. Josef could be the father, but no one believes it. Georg from Hanover comes into question, as does the mayor. When the child is born healthy, all could be well again. But Josef refuses to even acknowledge Grete. In Monika Helfer's SPIEGEL bestseller from 2020, their granddaughter and Grete's daughter tells the story of the Bagage, as the family is contemptuously called. Without any snivelling, Helfer's clear and poetic language makes it tangible how each of us carries the history of our own ancestors around with us as "baggage".