Three Sisters (Drei Schwestern)

In the world of the three sisters, time trickles by with them divorced from reality and longing for a romanticised past. They dream of their childhood when their father, the General, was still alive and Europe still seemed to be in order. Olga, the eldest, sacrifices herself – with constant headaches – to her profession as a teacher, Mascha, who is married, longs for more passionate love and throws herself into an affair, and Irina, the youngest, believes that only work is the key to a better life, yet still spends half the day asleep. 
Yet social reality can quickly catch up on the decadence of middle-class boredom: renowned Slovenian director Mateja Koležnik relocates Chekhov's provincial drama to the middle of a military area. The three daughters of the dead general live in the upper storey of this military complex, war strategies are being busily planned all around them, they no longer have any privacy and birch forests only exist in photographs now. When their parallel world can no longer be maintained, despite all their attempts to suppress reality, they have nowhere to flee but Moscow, but it is no longer the place they have been longing for in their minds.     

Mateja Koležnik is one of Slovenia's most renowned directors. With psychological precision and atmospheric lucidity, she portrays the cracks between people's outer and inner lives. She regularly directs at the Burgtheater Vienna and the Berliner Ensemble. In 2023, her Bochum production of "Kinder der Sonne" was invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen.