Friday, 3/28/2025
at 8:00 PM



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In our perception, fairy tales are considered literature for children, but they have been passed down by adults for generations. The Brothers Grimm collected folk tales and published a first volume in 1812 and a second volume in 1815, which caused an uproar because the people had not only told socially conforming tales. At the urging of the publishers, the brothers moralized the texts for their third collection (1825) and only accepted 50 out of 278 tales. A contentious task, in which their only sister Lotte also helped, who managed the household for the brothers until she married in 1822. Who would be surprised if, in our staging, the overworked Lotte is visited at night by her unknown sister Trude, who brings stories from the afterlife, asks uncomfortable questions, helps the resigned Lotte to see things differently, and spends a humorous, cheerful, crazy, and fairy-tale-like hour with her. In doing so, the two dive into the crime of Grimm's fairy tales. They transform traditional texts with playful delight and create new forms of visual theater. They experiment with paper art and give language in the form of narrative images a new

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