Harald Kislinger

Moldaublick
Eine Heimsuchung
Farce
1 D, 2 H, 2 Dek
UA: 11.11.1992 · Landestheater Linz · Directed by: Leopold Huber
Mother, ghost-father and son return to a place that used to be their home. A straightforward place in the Bohemian forest, Stifter-land, more precisely Oberplan. Now it’s called Horni Planá and the country is submerged. The gigantic Moldovan reservoir covers the sunken past, but not the memory of it. Because this is where the woman lived her life, met her husband, gave birth to her son. After the war, the man shot himself, woman and child were expelled to the south, found refuge in a strange, medium-sized city, in Linz. She became a harsh and very old woman, driven by overwhelming care for her child. The son, whom she has driven into a career as a doctor and didn’t even let out of her grasp when he was married, has become a drunkard who has given up on himself. The invisible participant in this journey: the dead father, a ghost who comments in a scarce and dark way. Now the borders are open, it’s the time of return, the time for hoping for compensation for the bitterness of displacement.