Marie Curie - Schauspiel
Biographical play by Susanne Felicitas Wolf
She was Europe's first female doctor of natural sciences. She was France's first female professor. She was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize and the first person to receive a second one. Marie Curie was ahead of her time in many ways and paved her way into the male-dominated world of science. As a woman, she publicly insisted on her share in joint research with her husband. As a widow, she engaged in an affair with a younger man and presumably had a relationship with a woman. And as a mother, she raised two emancipated daughters. She shaped an entire dynasty of female researchers that continued to thrive for decades. Marie Curie, born Maria Sklodowska on November 7, 1867, in Warsaw, is still regarded today as an icon, a role model scientist, and a fighter against obstacles in a male-dominated world. She had to overcome deep crises. The worst one was after the sudden accidental death of her husband Pierre. This unfathomable loss threw her down. Exhausted and lonely, she thought she couldn't go on living. But she fought back, worked even harder, and even took over her deceased husband's professorship. What inner strength, what unquenchable curiosity for knowledge and research drove this extraordinary woman? Her joint research work with Pierre Curie and her own discoveries are still considered milestones in nuclear physics. Maria Sklodowska-Curie devoted her life to science, relentlessly pushing herself. Marie and Pierre Curie published their research results free of charge. Personal gain was never the goal; their knowledge was meant to serve humanity. Marie maintained this even after her husband's death until her own end. On the front lines of World War I, she traveled with an X-ray mobile, wanting to save lives but having to endure so much death and suffering. Marie Curie was a committed European, working for the League of Nations and advocating for peace, freedom, and equality. Unfortunately, she was not able to prevent the development of the most terrible weapon of humanity, the atomic bomb, based on her scientific insights. In the summer of 1934, on July 4th, the extraordinary life of Marie Curie ended. Weakened by radiation, she succumbed to "pernicious anemia" in a Swiss sanatorium. Albert Einstein called her his "defiant sister" and paid tribute to her: "She embodied a strength and purity of will, a toughness against herself, an objectivity and incorruptibility of judgment that are rarely united in one person."
With MARIE CURIE, we continue the successful collaboration with author Susanne Felicitas Wolf after the 2nd INTHEGA Prize 2018 for HILDEGARD VON BINGEN - THE VISIONARY. The new play also tells the story of a strong woman and her unconditional life on the edge. And of course, Anja Klawun is the actress who gives a face and a voice to this unique strength.
The Author
Author, dramaturge, and director Susanne Felicitas Wolf is from Mainz and currently lives in Vienna. She has worked at theaters such as Schauspiel Frankfurt, Volkstheater Wien, and Schauspielhaus Wien, and has written texts or plays for venues including Schauspielhaus Wien, Komische Oper Berlin, and Volkstheater Wien. As a dramatization author, she is a regular guest at the Wiener Theater in der Josefstadt. She also wrote the stage adaptation for the production THE POPESS, for which theaterlust was awarded the Inthega Prize DIE NEUBERIN in 2014. Her play HILDEGARD VON BINGEN - THE VISIONARY, a commissioned work for theaterlust, received the 2nd Inthega Prize in 2018 in the direction of Thomas Luft.
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