Theater: Elisabeth - Landestheater Tübingen

A feminist monologue about anger and the truth of being a woman by Mareike Fallwickl

Here Elisabeth speaks, not "Sissi". Empress Elisabeth has learned from history. She looks back with fury at the painful points of her female biography: marriage, the obligation to bear children, the cult of beauty, attempts at emancipation. With shame she admits: "Not being interested in politics is a privilege." Elisabeth never thought of giving up her privileges, never renounced traveling where she wanted, escaping when she wanted, squandering millions on travel, clothes, and servants as she pleased. But in the end she stands alone before a naked truth: a woman is free only when all women are free. "Elisabeth" reveals in ten "exercises" the systemic sexism that runs through white, patriarchal, and aristocratic societies. Mareike Fallwickl, author of the feminist novel "The Anger That Remains" (2022), has written a gripping monologue that builds a bridge from the first women's movement to today's feminism.

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