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The novel written by the Jewish author Maria Lazar in the 1920s was long considered lost. Its rediscovery and first publication is a small literary sensation. The text is a breathless dialogue between four friends, as different as day and night, and was recently premiered at TD Berlin.

“Every word I speak shall be a weapon.
And who speaks here is me. Yes, me! Only me!”

On a wild ride through her own life and with an enormous narrative drive, a first-person narrator articulates her personal reality. A voice that absolutely wants to be heard. Throughout childhood, youth, and early adulthood, she and her three friends fight against constraints and attributions of femininity. Each develops a very own instinct, a very own strategy in the struggle for her place in life. As times and levels weave together ever more rapidly and mysteriously, soon the question arises: Who is actually telling this story? And what is reality and what is fiction?

“The search for female identity in Maria Lazar's novel remains (even a century later) completely relevant. No woman who knows better or stands on the morally right side tells this story. On the contrary.” – Barbara Behrendt – Preview on Radio 3

ON FEBRUARY 14, audience talk with publisher Albert C. Eibl following the performance

DANCE/THEATER Greta Winkler / Hannah Heinzelmann Director Ariane Kareev Stage / Costume Maria Walter / Ariella Karatolou DRAMATURGY / PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Judith Humer ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Johanna Rolshausen SUPPORTED BY Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion PERFORMANCE RIGHTS Thomas Sessler Verlag / Das vergessene Buch - DVB Verlag GmbH THANKS TO Phil Jungschlaeger / Lasse Winkler / Monika Humer

ARIANE KAREEV opened the 2024/25 season of the Deutsche Oper Berlin with the opera-techno performance Immersion at Stadtbad Charlottenburg. In 2025, Antigone followed at Schauspiel Dortmund. She made her directorial debut on a large stage with Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame 22/23 at the Staatstheater Kassel. Ariane Kareev is, among others, a scholarship holder at the Academy Music Theater Today. http://www.arianekareev.com

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