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Also träumen wir mit hellwacher Vernunft

Saturday, 5/2/2026 at 6:00 PM

Also träumen wir mit hellwacher Vernunft

Saturday, 5/2/2026
at 6:00 PM

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Hans Otto Theater / Großes Haus
Schiffbauergasse 11
14467 Potsdam

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€ 17.60 to € 40.70

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„To acknowledge what is – to make real what should be“.
Because Christa Wolf tried to correspond with this own solution in her life and work, one could call her a seer: With a fine sensorium, she was able to accurately grasp everyday things, world-shaking topics, and emotional states to place these in a realm of possibility of poetry. As a determined citizen of the GDR, she simultaneously withstood both societal and personal contradictions, becoming a moral authority for many. Her texts also serve as a repository of memory for a lost country. They tell of the hope for a better, antifascist society as well as of repressive power structures in socialism and the courageous resistance against them. They depict a female perspective on the world: of common good and kindness as an alternative to capital, competition, consumption, and the Cold War. And of disrespectful defamations from West Germany after the reunification, even though the author had previously been recognized in the West with appreciation and numerous awards.

Based on Christa Wolf's texts, the theater evening embarks on a journey through a disappeared land. It connects a poetess's life with a chronicle of the GDR. It is about a great author who must not be forgotten.

Direction: Sascha Hawemann
Stage: Alexander Wolf
Costumes: Ines Burisch

Event data provided by: Reservix

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The event can also be booked as part of a subscription with 5 theater evenings at all Reservix advance ticket sales points or in our ticket shop at https://stadtgunzenhausen.reservix.de/events (cheaper than individual purchase - fixed seating - subscription transferable).

More info:
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