EMMY: Was kümmert uns der Sonnenschein

In the organizer's words:

"(The) currently most important female novelist in Germany"

"next to Else Lasker-Schüler, now the greatest poet in German words and feelings"

"Here a genial nature full of visionary power and romantic grace finds its expression"

Despite outstanding recognition from the literary greats of her time, such as Hermann Hesse, Rainer Maria Rilke and Hugo Ball, the writer Emmy Hennings has almost been forgotten. Yet as an actress, singer, cabaret artist, prostitute and at the same time a deeply Catholic co-founder of Dadaism, she was anything but ordinary. Just as little as her texts. They tell of love in conventional and commercial forms, of illness and death, of prison stays, drug addiction, of longings and hope. This text collage of poems and prose by Emmy Hennings provides an impressive insight into the many facets of the author, who was very multifaceted both in terms of her character and her art. Her work is based on something deeply human: the search for herself and for love.

Acting: Regine Manon Böhm, Svitlana Korzhavina, Veronika Kleer
Text & direction: Leonie Seidler, Anna Straetmans