by Rabea Edel Adapted for the stage by Alice Buddeberg and Nina Steinhilber World premiere
Jakob stood in the field and looked over at Selma.
For more than sixty years.
What do we know about our mothers or our children about us? When do we really know a person, their story, their life? How much remains unsaid? A phenomenon that seems almost symptomatic of the post-war period continues to affect subsequent generations: the silence in families, the buried, the repressed, the almost forgotten. Rabea Edel combines different times and changing political and social conditions with the individual fates of her characters to create a moving family biography. Portrait of My Mother with Ghosts follows the traces of life from the beginning of the last century to the present day, telling of the long shadows that past events and experiences cast far into the present. About women who are constantly searching for their place in life, a future, perhaps happiness. Raisa, Martha, Selma and Dina - four women, four generations, four lives. A German-Jewish family story. In Alice Buddeberg's production, Portrait of My Mother with Ghosts comes to the stage for the first time.
