Transit
Drama after the novel by Anna Seghers.
In an adaptation for Badische Landesbühne by Kathrin Mayr.
Marseille 1940: Thousands are fleeing from the NS-regime, waiting for their transit papers. Among them a young German, who, following the suicide of author Weidel, assumed the author’s identity. Now, the papers enable him to prepare his escape to Mexico.
In Marseille, he meets Marie and falls in love. Marie is longing for a future overseas, but she can’t apply for a visa without her husband. The young man soon realises that Marie is the late author’s wife. Marie however is convinced that Weidel is still alive. Without telling her, the young man goes to the consulate, requesting travel papers for Marie, as she is now ‘his’ wife.
Anna Seghers, who escaped to Mexico via Marseille herself, gives an account of this state of being in transit, which is the lived reality of millions of people today.
Duration
1 Stunden 30 Minuten
keine Pause
Age recommendation
14 years or older
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[The director] uses the form of rapid changes between action and explaining narration, in which the three brilliant and impressive actors Thilo Langer, Madeline Hartig and Tobias Gondolf take on different roles.
Thomas Huber / Bruchsaler Rundschau
20.11.2023
Applause for an intense and impressive premiere.
Thomas Huber / Bruchsaler Rundschau
20.11.2023
The intelligent production requires the audience to focus. Which it did at the Kurhaus, as quiet as a mouse.
Maximilian Haller / Heidenheimer Zeitung
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