Youth theater play based on the novel of the same name by Anne C. Voorhoeve / Contribution to 35 years of peaceful revolution
Young State Theater Parchim
Directed by: Jule Kracht
For everyone aged 12 and over
After the death of her mother Rita, 13-year-old Lilly is left to fend for herself. She doesn't want to go to boarding school, but to Jena to visit her aunt Lena, whom she met for the first time at the funeral in Hamburg and immediately took to her heart. But in 1988, Jena is still behind a heavily guarded wall that divides Germany into two parts. Lilly can't understand this, especially as Rita was always happy to tell her daughter about her youth in the GDR: Rita had also lost both parents at an early age and had grown up in the loving care of her older sister Lena. On a vacation trip to Hungary, Rita met Lilly's father Jochen and soon afterwards fled to him in the West. Lilly only found out later about the consequences this had for Lena in the GDR. Anne C. Voorhoeve tells a story full of tragedy and comedy, of parallels and contrasts in a divided Germany. With dramaturgical finesse, the author transcends the boundaries of space and time so that Rita and Lilly can accompany each other until each has found her own place. Who am I? Where do I come from and where do I belong? These are exciting questions, especially against the backdrop of recent German history and particularly for young people.
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