Theater Willy Praml

80 years since the end of the war - there are still things in the world that are unforgivable. Things that a country like Germany should never forgive itself for, should never accept the mercy of forgiveness. Only then will there be no forgetting. In the 1980s, it still made a difference to travel to France, Poland or the Netherlands as a German. You were always ashamed to open your mouth and be recognized as German. Today it is almost forgotten. And the many causes of today's conflicts, which still have their origins in the German-made world catastrophe that only appeared to end 80 years ago, have also been forgotten. The war was over. But only for us.

"The Pain" by Marguerite Duras speaks very clearly of a horror caused by the Germans that has no precedent, no equivalent at any time in human history, as she puts it. Duras describes waiting for her husband, Robert L., who was deported to a concentration camp as a member of the Resistance and was accidentally discovered in a pile of corpses and rescued. She stands opposite the human remains weighing 37 kilos and screams. She can hardly bear the sight of him and nurses him back to life for many weeks. When he has the strength to look up again, to listen to her again, she tells him that she will part with him. "I knew that he knew - that he knew that I thought at every hour: He didn't die in the concentration camp."

Introduction of the author by Birgit Heuser, 35 minutes before the start of each performance.

Photo credit: Michael Weber

31.10., 7:30 pm; 2.11., 6 pm & 8.11., 7:30 pm (theater review on 10.11. at 7:30 pm in the Haus am Dom)

Theater Willy Praml, Waldschmidtstr. 19, Frankfurt

2for1: 20 €

On the day of the event, up to half an hour before the start, box office