Grimme Nacht I

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Performative reading “IMSCHAU – FENSTER – DERWOLF” by Gabriele Hänel and Knuth Irche in the panorama windows of Galerie Nord

“The speaker in this case / is a middle-aged witch, me – / tangeled on my two great arms, /
my face in a book / and my mouth wide, / ready to tell you a story or two.”

In the context of Penelope Wehrli’s light installation 15 Buchstaben – 101 Wörter (15 Letters – 101 Words), contemporary adaptations of Grimm’s fairy tales from Anne Sexton’s Transformations will be experienced performatively on two evenings.

The American poet and representative of the “confessional poets” Anne Sexton transforms the fairy tales poetically with a coarse humour. She elicits new insights for the present from this fund of ancient knowledge through her richly associative additions and thereby exposes the strands of family violence, abuse, jealousy and love.

Gabriele Hänel is an author, performer and theatre maker and was one of the founders of the Puppentheater Neubrandenburg and the group Zinnober. She is a playwright for theatres in Halle, Dresden, Karlsruhe, Magdeburg, Cologne and for independent theatre groups in Berlin.

Until the turn of the millennium, Knuth Irche was the conceptual head of the interdisciplinary ensemble-driven theatre in Neubrandenburg. He works as a director, set designer, performer, speaker, reader, musician, theatre sculptor, sculptor and photographer.

Käthe Kruse and Edda Kruse Rosset will be seen and heard in the “Grimme Nacht II” on 9 September 2021.