Wednesday, 7/23/2025
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based on the novel by Irmgard Keun
stage adaptation by Gottfried Greiffenhagen

Direction: Irene Christ
with Johanna Marie Bourgeois

48 hours in the year 1936. The 19-year-old Susanna describes - initially with overflowing zest for life and satirical humor - the events around her: her passionate love for Franz, with whom she has future plans; the changed behavior of the people close to her; life with the "race laws"; overall the new normal: the everyday life during the Nazi regime. An appearance by Hitler before an enthusiastic crowd at the Frankfurt Opera Square becomes the starting point of drastic events. The noose tightens. Denunciations are the order of the day. "Mothers report their daughters-in-law, daughters their fathers-in-law, brothers their sisters, sisters their brothers... Neighbors their neighbors." In no time, Susanna is no longer just a humorous observer but right in the midst of it all and forced to grow up. During a lavish party shortly before midnight, a major life decision must be made. Action takes place after midnight.

Irmgard Keun, a star in the literary sky in the 1930s and later rediscovered, wrote the novel "Nach Mitternacht" during her time in exile. It was published in 1937 in the Netherlands. She also celebrated sensational successes with her earlier novels "Gilgi, one of us" and "The artificial silk girl." Gottfried Greiffenhagen compresses Keun's great novel into a desperately cheerful and ruthlessly sharp-witted play with his monologue adaptation.

7:00 PM

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