"I Hope..." The Diaries of Elisabeth Block and Anne Frank

A theatrical adaptation based on the diaries of Anne Frank and Elisabeth Block - a classroom play for ages 14 and up. Duration: approximately 60 minutes, including discussion approximately 90 minutes.

"I hope I will be able to confide everything to you[...]" - these are the first words Anne Frank wrote on June 12, 1942, in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Three months earlier and 800 km away, 19-year-old Elisabeth Block from Rosenheim writes in her diary about the birth of her friend's child. It would be her last entry: the Block family, also Jewish, was deported and likely murdered in a Polish camp.

Between Elisabeth's last entry and Anne's first entry lie not just 96 days, but two completely different life situations. Both were different teenagers - yet they suffered the same fate: discrimination, exclusion, murder because of their belonging to a group. They are connected by a courage for life that always turns to small things: collecting flowers, baking cookies, hair blowing in the wind.

This one-person play by the Young Theatre Rosenheim e.V. examines the mechanisms of political and private discrimination - without a didactic tone. Through modern aesthetic means and the voices of two teenagers, it meets students on equal footing. It works both on stage and as a mobile version in the classroom. A discussion is an integral part of the performance.