Good Morning – Scenes of Liberation

Spring 1945. A woman comes down the steps of a house and squints into the sun. A man walks past. He stares straight ahead. A child touches the cold hull of a tank and runs away. The soldier does not look after him. A couple dance across the square. The woman turns round and disappears back into the house.

The play ‘Good Morning – Scenes of a Liberation’, marking the 80th anniversary of Germany’s Liberation from National Socialism, explores the lives of various characters in the days and months following the arrival of the Allies. What does the end of the war mean for a Jewish person, a forced labourer, a Nazi Party official? Liberation or occupation? A new beginning or a collapse? How do people who were perpetrators and victims only yesterday come face to face? Drama and video art bring the characters’ feelings, thoughts, longings and fears to life, revealing the underlying notions and meanings of freedom and Liberation in the spring of 1945, and building a bridge to the present day.

Eighty years after the end of the war,
what ideas and meanings of freedom shape our society? Where do we stand today?

Good Morning – Scenes of a Liberation
Director: Anne Wittmiß
Text: Anne Wittmiß & folklicht*
Video art: Lucian Patermann
Set design: Leah Lichtwitz

with Regine Gebhardt, Emma Schoepe, Folkert Dücker

Duration: 80 minutes
Recommended age: 16 and over

A production by folklicht performance e.V.

The standard ticket price is 15 euros (concessions 5 euros, solidarity ticket 25 euros). Tickets and bookings are handled directly via the folklicht* website; there is no box office.