Premiere: Die Bagage

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by Monika Helfer / first performance of the version by Coco Plümer

At the edge of the inhabited world, at the far end of the valley, up on the mountain, lives the Bagage: Mary and Joseph with their four children. When the First World War breaks out, Josef is called 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".