by Anna Seghers
nly people without passports are allowed to enter here…” With this announcement begins Anna Seghers’ satirical tale “Journey to the Eleventh Reich.” After a long and arduous search, a group of stateless people arrive in a mysterious land where everything seems to be turned upside down. They experience a reality with strange customs, bizarre bureaucratic procedures, and a wedding celebration of a very special kind.
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Anna Seghers (Netty Reiling) wrote the text in 1938 while in exile in Paris and published it in 1939 in “Die neue Weltbühne” (The New World Stage). Tonight, students from the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts will perform it as a staged reading: “A Kafkaesque parable about exile, statelessness, and the absurdity of political borders—poetic, disturbing, and highly topical.”
With Mina Halide Guschke & Linus Hüsam. Directed by Zoe Straub & Lara Pohlers
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April 2026
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