In the beginning, "Malina" appears to be a romantic relationship: A woman torn between two men. But she can’t really fathom either of them and it soon becomes evident that there is more behind the disrupted phone conversations, the mythical stories, the nocturnal games of chess and the desperate monologues than mere romantic chaos.
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Berliner Ensemble - Neues Haus, Zuschauerraum Neues Haus
In fact, what is revealed is the life of a woman who dreams of overcoming the limitations of language and the violence of the past but constantly reverts to a feeling of being alien in the world: alien in her desire to belong, alien in her need for autonomy. In poetical and powerful language, Bachmann examines what it means when one’s own hopes don’t coincide with social expectations.
What does it feel like to want to love and to say "I" in a world that knows no "We"?
FRITZI WARTENBERG, WORX-director of the programme’s first season, and her team pursue the question of "why the Self is ill, why society is ill and thereby brings illness to the individual in turn." (Bachmann).
Following "The Writer" and "Alias Anastasius", "Malina" will be her third work at Berliner Ensemble.
Additional information
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Participating artists
von Ingeborg Bachmann (Autor/in)
Constanze Becker
Fritzi Wartenberg
Janina Kuhlmann
Elena Scheicher
David Rimsky-Korsakow
Mario Seeger
Johannes Nölting
Dates
October 2024
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