Guido Wertheimer

Many ghosts are haunting Berlin. The author and narrator of this performative monologue and Aron, the enigmatic young Berlin Jew whom the university has placed at the author's side, walk behind them, question them, try to enter into conversation with them. Sometimes the ghosts are within reach, sometimes they evaporate or hide in the events of the present. Guido Wertheimer writes a diary about his stay in Berlin, the city where his grandparents were born. In early 2020, he visits the places where his family's history played out (or could have played out) in the 1920s and 1930s. In doing so, he does not attempt to deal with issues of Judaism or Nazism: What the author describes is an outsider's view of the city, of his own history, of his family's past as well as his own present. The verses chant the passage of time, follow it, reflect it, sometimes linger on small moments of the journey, and then are thrown back into the events of the time. They are pages of a specific diary, but through the resonating body of the stage they touch collective experiences and feelings. (State Theater Braunschweig)