The Drama Is Present:

Wolfram Höll‘s theatre texts are like music, they read like scores and create a unique narrative sound. The story takes place in a Swiss village where a single-parent father arrives with his new-born son and the latter‘s GDR-raised great-grandmother, after the mother has died in an accident. The village community maintains a wary distance, the houses seem to have eyes, age-old rituals prevail and the newcomers are expected to first of all learn Swiss-German. Full of grotesque humour, the novel Niederwald tells a story of arrival in a new life, integration into a world marked by the consequences of climate change and old-age, but also of overcoming sorrow and grief.

An evening with the writer Wolfram Höll and members of the Volksbühne ensemble Kathrin Angerer, Inga Busch und Rosa Lembeck.