Der kaukasische Kreidekreis

In the organizer's words:

Coup in Georgia! Governors executed! Civil war! In these old, bloody times, the kitchen maid Grusche finds a small child who has been left behind in the turmoil of flight and expulsion. She takes it in, feeds it and raises it. In return, she risks her engagement to the soldier Simon. And that's not all: Grusche flees into the mountains to protect the child from the armored riders who are on the trail of the descendant and heir of the deposed governor. After the civil war, the governor's wife lays claim to the child she gave birth to.

Written in 1944 and repeatedly updated and revised, Bertolt Brecht's great parable "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" tells of motherhood and motherly love, of justice and law, of war and flight and of the all-encompassing question: Who owns the earth?

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