An evening of theater based on texts by Inge Müller with the artENSEMBLE THEATER
This is an evening of theater that follows Inge Müller's texts as a trail laid.
Inge Müller was a GDR lyricist and wife of the playwright Heiner Müller, with whom she co-created radio plays and theater pieces. This year we celebrate her 100th birthday. Her life and work, which are inextricably interwoven in this "bio-drama", span three social systems in Germany: from the Weimar Republic through National Socialism and the Second World War to the early GDR.
After an air raid on Berlin in April 1945, Inge Müller was buried for three days - a traumatic experience that left its mark on her and lives in her like the motor of a centrifuge. The centerpiece of the evening is the poem "Unterm Schutt II", from which the title is also taken.
The performance depicts the struggle of a woman, a poet, to find herself. It describes the search for ways to live, to survive through and in poetry, even at a time when the social framework is increasingly intruding into the poet's personal life and when poetry is increasingly thought of and seen in political terms.
The evening is therefore also an excellent opening to a discussion about the state of German unity, 36 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Perhaps we can benefit here from Inge Müller's unsparing honesty? "I refuse to wear masks / I seek myself / Naked and changeable. / No fire no God we ourselves / Lay us in the grave." (Inge Müller "Masken").
