Deutsche Kammerschauspiele - Sophie & ich
"How are the paths that one walks in life? - There is nothing apolitical, only an 'either - or'! (Sophie Scholl in: Sophie & Ich) The play “Sophie & ich” by Ursula Kohlert is about a meeting that never took place but could have: What would have happened if Traudl Humps (neé Junge), the later secretary of Hitler, had been friends with the equally aged resistance fighter Sophie Scholl? It is a piece about guilt and responsibility that raises the question of being a bystander. A piece about the courage to recognize and make decisions, and about becoming an adult. But what does it mean to “become an adult”? Is it only related to age? Sophie Scholl, the resistance fighter, and Traudl Junge, the uncritical secretary of Hitler: two young women who could not be more different? At least initially, the biographies of the two resemble each other: Traudl was born in 1920, Sophie in 1921. Like many of their peers, both were initially enthusiastic members of the BDMM. Both lived at the same time in Munich - Traudl's ballet school was even located on the very Franz-Joseph-Strasse where the Scholl siblings lived during their studies, which makes a chance encounter in the street quite possible. And even more: Both girls were interested in biology and romantically enthusiastic about living nature. Both possessed great joy of life paired with a pronounced desire for self-realization and freedom. But the personal development of both was massively disturbed by National Socialism: Sophie was not allowed to study immediately but had to perform hard labor, and Traudl was denied her job as an office worker despite passing her dance exam. Although their further life paths were very different, the similarities tempt one to think of Sophie Scholl and Traudl Junge together. What would have happened if they had met? Could they have been friends? What would they have had to say to each other? - Before the war, and - if it had been possible - also afterwards? This piece allows Sophie's brave resistance struggle and Traudl's unreflective complicity to collide as extreme positions of social behavior and thus enables an exciting encounter between two extraordinary people, illustrating that no one is born a resistance fighter or a bystander, but that the personal responsibility of each individual shapes a society. Then as now. In the production by Annette Greve, Jeanne Zaugg appears as Sophie Scholl and Kristina Schleicher as Traudl Humps. Both actresses are young ambitious performers who pursue their often rocky path in the arts. The live music by Thomas Parr atmospherically and associatively supports the scenarios. One visitor wrote: “...the whole thing got under my skin and the live film music could not fit better...” The author Ursula Kohlert was born in 1974 in Düsseldorf. In her plays, the political, historical, and private are interconnected, especially in “Sophie & ich.” Performance rights: Drei Masken Verlag For the premiere, which took place on March 12, 2022, at the Bürgerhaus Endingen, the Badische Zeitung wrote: “There are theater visits that are forever etched in memory – Sophie & Ich by Ursula Kohlert in the direction of Annette Greve definitely belongs to that category. After one and a half gripping hours, there were “Standing Ovations” on Saturday evening at the Bürgerhaus: for the magnificent performance of the two actresses Jeanne Zaugg (Sophie Scholl) and Giulia Doreen Arteman (Traudl Junge), for the quiet, unagitated, and therefore all the more impressive staging by Annette Greve and for the sensitive guitar playing by Thomas Parr. (…) Absolutely worth seeing – the two actresses, the production, the play.” (Badische Zeitung, March 16, 2022 / Ruth Seitz) The theater DEUTSCHE KAMMERSCHAUSPIELE based in Endingen am Kaiserstuhl presents a large repertoire in various production groups. From the citizen stage “StadtErlebnisEndingen” to barrier-free family theater, musicals, social theater, and theater aktuell, where socially relevant themes of the present are addressed on stage. Readings, historical tours, and dinner soirées round off the offerings of the professional theater, which is shown both in the historically shaped Kaiserstuhl city of Endingen and on tours. The director and theater manager Annette Greve studied theater, literature, and political science at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and was trained in dance, singing, and acting. The production “Sophie & Ich” was funded in 2022 through the NeuStartKultur program by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Admission: 6:00 PM"
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