Joint visit to the Vorpommern Theatre.

We will watch the theatre play "Memories of a Girl" based on the novel by Annie Ernaux and talk about the themes of shame and guilt and their social function after the play.

Admission: €16.50 at a reduced group price after registration
Registration: at tickets@straze.de.
Start of performance: 6 pm

A further education event organised by STRAZEkultur at the Kultur- und Initiativenhaus Greifswald e. V.

About the play:

"I believe that I cannot write if I do not arm myself with the truth - with 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 an amorous attraction quickly turns into a brutal experience of powerlessness, shame and marginalisation. Decades later, Annie Ernaux looks back as an adult woman and passionate writer. With unsparing clarity and linguistic precision, she transforms the act of writing into a journey back in time to herself. It is an attempt to understand the young girl of that time in order to reclaim the power of interpretation over her own life.

With "A Girl's Memory", Annie Ernaux, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature, has achieved more than an autobiographical look back - it is an intimate and at the same time radical attempt to appropriate her own past without glossing over 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: We would like to point out that the performance contains explicit depictions of sexual violence.