"This is a talent", was Kurt Tucholsky’s enthusiastic assessment of the Berlin-born author Irmgard Keun. Readers were captivated not only by her sense of humour but also by her extraordinary ability to translate life into literature. Following her successful reading of "Käsebier erobert den Kurfürstendamm" by the unjustly forgotten author Gabriele Tergit, Katharina Thalbach will now bring Irmgard Keun’s debut novel to the stage, the novel that made her an overnight success in 1931. With "Gilgi", Keun created one of the modern and self-assured female characters that caused her books to be banned by the Nazis in 1933: It’s the story of a young woman who finds her very own way to autonomy through paternalism, economic and emotional dependencies during the Weimar Republic.
KATHARINA THALBACH is an unmistakeable luminary on Germany’s stages and screens. Her repertoire ranges from characters like Mother Courage and the Captain of Köpenick to Hercule Poirot. As a master student of Helene Weigel’s, she enjoys a long-standing connection with the Berliner Ensemble.
- Sibylle Baschung Textfassung
- Oliver Reese Szenische Einrichtung
- Janina Kuhlmann Ausstattung
- Jörg Gollasch Musik
- Steffen Heinke Licht
