Based on a novel by Irmgard Keun
Written and Directed By Anja Panse Stage Design Annette Meyer Composer Annegret Enderle Cast Friederike Pöschel Premiere 8. März 2018 Location Theater unterm Dach Berlin Support Bezirksamt Pankow von Berlin
Irmgard Keun's novel Child of all Nations tells a story of flight and homelessness from the perspective of a ten-year-old girl. Her father, a writer, has to flee from the Nazi regime and so begins an odyssey through Europe and the USA. The girl Kully, however, perceives the world differently to the adults: She does not judge. Her positive and naïve view amazes and amuses and makes light of the horrors.
In particular, Kind aller Länder reminds us that thousands of Germans were once on the run and shows that, today as then, people do not flee their homeland for no reason.
Friederike Pöschel
As a director, Anja Panse has an unmistakable signature style, associative, with dream sequences, intense, sensitive, clever, historically true, original and also very special in the way she uses props. She neither wants to hide reality nor simply depict it, but hints at it with small details so that the audience can think further, associate further, which is an important principle of epic theatre.
