Literarische Soiree mit Tom Klenk

In the organizer's words:

"There is weeping in the world"

Lasker-Schüler, Kästner, Kaléko and Brecht on May 11

"There is weeping in the world, as if the good Lord had died". Else Lasker-Schüler's poem Weltende first appeared in 1903 and achieved great popularity in the following years through numerous reprints in expressionist magazines. In 1941, the poet took it up again in exile in Jerusalem: In her last play, IchundIch, she puts it in the mouth of Goethe's Faust, who, together with Mephisto, fights back against the advancing Nazis in Hell. The poem thus spans a period of experience that extends from the beginning of the 20th century to the Nazi dictatorship, exile and the Second World War.
2025 marks the eightieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. As part of the new reading format in the box office foyer of the Mainfranken Theater in May, Tom Klenk and Patricia Schäfer will trace the literary perception of the world during this period - a time of existential upheaval, which is why it seems very present again today.
With texts by Else Lasker-Schüler, Erich Kästner, Mascha Kaléko and Bertolt Brecht, among others.