based on the novel of the same name by Annie Ernaux translated from the French by Sonja Finck in a stage adaptation by Lara Tacke and Joris Löschburg
"I believe that I cannot write unless I 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 exclusion. Decades later, Annie Ernaux looks back as a grown 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, achieves 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 dialog between past and present and a profound examination of the connection between desire, identity and power.