PREMIERE: Gilgi - eine von uns (von Irmgard Keun)

The dramatization of the novel that made Irmgard Keun famous. A production with lots of music from the 20s and 30s...

"She holds it tightly in her hand, her little life, the girl Gilgi. She calls herself Gilgi, her name is Gisela. A name with two i's suits slender legs and child-slim hips, tiny fashion caps that find a mysterious hold on the far end of the head." So begins the novel that made Irmgard Keun famous in 1931. A year later, "Das kunstseidene Mädchen" was published.

Gilgi, a girl in 1920s Cologne, gives up her job as a secretary and moves away from home because she is fed up with her parents' paternalistic existence. But even the "soft, dissolute, thoughtless" life with the writer Martin is no alternative, and her life, says Gilgi, "should not become a Strindberg drama". And so she takes matters into her own hands again and really sets off on the road to independence...

The musical framework is inspired by the period in which the novel was written. Richard Tauber ("Ich küsse Ihre Hand, Madame") and Marlene Dietrich ("Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte") are just a few examples...

Production: Florian Dehmel
Stage and costumes: Renáta Balogh
Musical direction: Sebastian Huber
With Natalja Maas | Sebastian Huber