Antje Rávic Strubel

Unvollkommene Umarmung
Auftragsarbeit für das Schauspiel Frankfurt
1 H
UA: 7.04.2019 · Schauspiel Frankfurt, Kammerspiele · Directed by: Anselm Weber
Andreas Sternthal can look back on a successful career. Coming from a petty bourgeois background, he managed to become a renowned defence lawyer in the uptight post-war years despite his homosexuality. But in retrospect, fine cracks between public and private life become apparent: between the bourgeois surface and a complicated triangular relationship, between detachment from the emotionally cold parental home of the 50s and the departure of the 70s in Frankfurt. Sternthal embarks on a search for the uncertainty of his identity and for the gaps between the various roles he plays, wondering who he actually is.

"When only two people embrace, their backs remain cold. You know that. You both know that. The back is cold. Unprotected in an imperfect embrace. In it lurks, because it is only half, the void. Do I have the feeling that I am only completely embraced in a hug when it comes from both sides? Enclosed? All there?"

Antje Rávic Strubel's touching portrait of a man was created as part of the series "Voices of a City - Stories from Frankfurt" for Schauspiel Frankfurt.