heimsuchung - a play after Jenny Erpenbeck

A stage adaptation of the novel by Jenny Erpenbeck
based on the book: HEIMSUCHUNG
© 2007 Albrecht Knaus Verlag, an imprint of Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH, Munich, Germany, all rights reserved

Heimsuchung is an intense century-spanning novel by Jenny Erpenbeck - widely regarded as one of Germany's most important literary voices today.

A house by a lake on the outskirts of Berlin bears witness to the last hundred years of German history and its upheavals. It is a stage for the dreams, longings, fears and hopes of those who live there - a place of happiness, expulsion, exile and identity. Its inhabitants live through the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the war and its aftermath, the GDR, reunification and the years that followed. Jenny Erpenbeck gives each individual fate its own literary form, letting each unfold its drama, its tragedy and its life's journey in a wholly distinct way. A panorama of the past century told with remarkable intensity by Nobel Prize contender Jenny Erpenbeck.