Christa Unzner deals with her mother's experiences
The diary entries of 18-year-old Thea tell of the last weeks and months of the war, which she spent on a farm in the north of Brandenburg. From the approach of the Allies and the Red Army, from the call to join the Volkssturm, which triggered horror and terror in her, from her escape on the trek and her return home through destroyed Berlin. Her notes are of striking authenticity, because Thea wrote where she went and where she stood, about her thoughts and fears, sometimes accompanied by rapturous girlish dreams, sometimes with journalistic precision, right up to an awakening, an understanding and ... a great shame. Nothing went through the filter. This inspired her daughter, Christa Unzner, to write a graphic novel in which she places herself in a fictional dialog with her 18-year-old mother. Together with director Jürgen Bonk, she has turned this dialog into a staged reading that has met with widespread interest and has been performed numerous times since 2020.
Christa Unzner will be a guest at the city library on May 11 at 7 pm. Tickets for this poignant reading are now available at the city library, advance bookings can be made on 03841 251 4020 or stadtbibliothek@wismar.de.
