Name: Girl Murderer :: Brunke
Start: 2024-01-27T00:00:00
Location: Staatstheater Braunschweig

Götz van Ooyen

Saskia Petzold

Ana Yoffe

Klaus Meininger

Nina Wolf

Knut Jensen

Maira Bieler

Bernhard Mikeska

Staatstheater Braunschweig

The Seven Years' War is over. Minna von Barnhelm is searching for her fiancé, Major Tellheim, from whom she hasn't heard in weeks. He is penniless because a bill of exchange he received for an advance payment is not recognized as his property by a Berlin court. Now he is stuck in an inn and has to vacate his room to a more affluent noblewoman. The fact that this woman is Minna, of all people, doesn't ensure a quick happy ending. Tellheim's wounded sense of honor stands in the way of a new relationship. Minna, a self-confident and self-determined woman, tries to circumvent the major's stubbornness, but although they love each other and both believe their intentions are always good, they constantly run into each other. This is what makes the play so comically charming. The great Enlightenment thinker, Lessing, does not overlook how war defines and changes social positions.

Minna von Barnhelm

The premiere of "Girl Murderer :: Brunke" by the award-winning theater collective RAUM+ZEIT brings the writer Thomas Brasch (1945-2001) back to life and brings him to Braunschweig for a reading. The Karl Brunke case, a true Braunschweig story, caused a stir at the beginning of the 20th century because Brunke murdered two young women, allegedly at their request. Brasch withdrew in the 1990s and researched the crime like an obsessive. More than 14,000 manuscript pages were collected and are now archived. In 1999, Brasch's publishing house published a volume of just 100 pages.