Alternative date: March 7, 2026, 8 p.m. Joint visit to the Theater Vorpommern. Please re-register at tickets@straze.de.
The event has been canceled due to illness and will be rescheduled for March 7.
+++ The event will be in German. +++
We will watch the play “Erinnerungen eines Mädchens” (”A Girl's Story") based on the novel by Annie Ernaux and discuss the topics of shame and guilt and their social function after the play.
Admission: 16,50€ at a reduced group price after registering at tickets[at]straze[dot]de.Performance begins at 6 pm.
A further education event by STRAZEkultur at Kultur- und Initiativenhaus Greifswald e. V..
About the play:
“I believe that I cannot write unless I arm myself with the truth—the truth of what I have been.” One summer, one woman, one experience that changes everything: in 1958, Annie—young, curious, and inexperienced—experiences something like sexual intimacy for the first time. But what begins as romantic attraction quickly turns into a brutal experience of powerlessness, shame, and exclusion. Decades later, Annie Ernaux looks back as an adult woman and passionate writer. With relentless clarity and linguistic precision, she transforms the act of writing into a journey through time to herself. It is an attempt to understand the young girl she once was, in order to regain the power to interpret her own life.
With “Erinnerung eines Mädchens” ("A Girl's Story") Annie Ernaux, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, has created more than an autobiographical retrospective—it is an intimate and radical attempt to come to terms with her own past without sugarcoating it.
On stage, this search becomes both a dialogue between past and present and a profound examination of the connection between desire, identity, and power.
Warning: Please note that the performance contains explicit depictions of sexual violence.
Director: Lara Tacke // Set & Costumes: MOTHER (Camilla Lønbirk and Olivia Schrøder von Lüttichau) // Dramaturgy: Joris Löschburg // Assistant director & stage manager: Wolf-Dietrich Stückrad // Stage manager: Stefano Fossat // Prompter: Kerstin Wollschläger // Actors: Paula Dieckmann, Friederike Serr, Gabriele Völsch
Foto: Peter van Heesen