Let’s talk about “Im Menschen muss alles herrlich sein”

Who am I actually? Am I born with my own identity or am I ultimately just the sum of my parents’ stories?

It is questions like these that linger in the mind and revolve around the themes of identity, home, family and ultimately happiness after seeing Jan Bosse’s production of “Im Menschen muss alles herrlich sein”.

The play, which is based on the novel of the same name by Sasha Marianna Salzmann, tells the story of mothers and daughters who are inevitably connected to each other, but cannot get close for a variety of reasons. The mothers Lena and Tatjana grow up in the slowly disintegrating system of the Soviet Union and finally come to the West, to Germany, due to various circumstances. They keep the traumas of their past inside themselves, which not only determines their lives, but also those of their daughters.

As part of a course offered by the Department of Art Studies at LMU, students are developing a dialogue format specially adapted to this play in cooperation with the Münchner Kammerspiele.
On Thursday, 7 December, they will invite the audience of the Münchner Kammerspiele to the Habibi Kiosk after the performance to reflect. With “post-it installations”, live music and a short video sequence, they want to inspire conversation and give the audience the opportunity to enter into dialogue in small groups. together on what they have seen and discuss the themes of the play.