Sunday, 7/27/2025
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With Maria Hofstätter & Martina Spitzer
Otto Lechner - Composition and Music

”The passport is the noblest part of a person. It does not come into being as easily as a person does. A person can come into being anywhere, in the most careless way and without a proper reason, but a passport never can. For that, it is acknowledged if it is good, while a person can be very good and still not be recognized.”

The setting for the dialogue is the train station restaurant in Helsinki: There, Ziffel, the intellectual, and Kalle, the worker, regularly meet to discuss the international situation and their own circumstances. Both have fled from Germany and now see the face of the world as it presents itself to the displaced, the emigrants.

With subtle humor and witty wordplay, these two completely opposite characters discuss cheap beer and fake cigars, their experiences as emigrants, and topics of a political, philosophical, and religious nature.

Brecht's refugee conversations, born out of his own experience of exile, are still regarded today as a key work about the experience of flight and emigration - magnificently and insightfully interpreted by Maria Hofstätter and Martina Spitzer!

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