Ravines filled with Snow
International School Theatre
Foto: Irma Gublia
"… there is no victory, General! There are only flags and men who die. And in the end there will neither be flags nor men …" Ravines filled with snow is the title of a theatre play created by students from the Mädchengymnasium in Essen-Borbeck with similarly aged Russian students from School Number 1 in Nizhny Novgorod under the leadership of the theatre director Thorsten Simon.
The basis for the play were the last letters from Stalingrad written by German soldiers in 1942; letters which never reached the people to whom they were addressed. In these farewell letters the soldiers, who are fully aware that they are facing imminent death, express themselves in an authentic manner and write about everyone and everything that was important to them in their lives. It is no longer patriotic ideas that stand at the centre of these letters, but existential feelings and the central questions of humanity, which are worked into a personal confrontation with life and death. Their grandchildren’s generation no longer face each other on the front line, but stand together on stage.
Events:
March 25, 2010, 7 pm
Maschinenhaus Zeche Carl, Essen
March 27, 2010, 7 pm
Maschinenhaus Zeche Carl, Essen
March 28, 2010, 7 pm
Maschinenhaus Zeche Carl, Essen
Project:
Irma Gublia, Kultur-Pipeline e. V. (D) / Christine von Berghes, Kultur-Pipeline e. V. (D) / Thorsten Simon (Regisseur), Theaterpädagoge und Schauspieler (D)
Partner:
Sylvia Danilieva (Russischlehrerin), Mädchengymnasium Essen-Borbeck (D) / Natalya Shukova (stellv. Direktorin), Schule Nr. 1, Nischnij Nowgorod (RUS) / Studio-Bühne Essen (D)