“The way these two strong personalities move toward one another over the course of 34 years, with subtle intensity, makes for an incredibly impressive reading experience.”
© Nils Schwarz
© Nils Schwarz
With Devid Striesow and Gioia Osthoff. A staged reading based on the correspondence between Anna and Sigmund Freud.
„I am not suited for marriage. No more than a table or a sofa or my own rocking chair.”
„Looking at you, I now see how old I am, for you are as old as psychoanalysis. Both have caused me worry, but fundamentally I expect more joy from you than from it.”
“The way these two strong personalities move toward one another over the course of 34 years, with subtle intensity, makes for an incredibly impressive reading experience.”
This evening explores an extraordinary relationship: that of Sigmund and Anna Freud. In the decades-long correspondence between father and daughter, a shared life unfolds, shaped by great love, but also by dependence, emancipation, and melancholy.
Their thoughts and experiences are not only a document of their time; they also move us through their undiminished relevance.
Devid Striesow and Gioia Osthoff devote themselves to the relationship between two major figures who profoundly shaped the way we think. It is a relationship in which love and power, dependence and emancipation, are inseparably intertwined. In the decades-long correspondence between Anna Freud and Sigmund Freud, there is far more than familial exchange: it is a workspace, a refuge, and a field of tension in which closeness and distance, care, loyalty, and separation are reflected. Anna Freud, not only as the daughter of a genius, but as an independent thinker, scientist, and pioneer, grows here from child to woman. Sigmund Freud accompanies her as an approachable father. Between overwhelm and admiration, he remains her tireless guide.
An evening that draws an intimate portrait of two people who are almost unimaginable without one another. The historical events of their time and the challenges they faced become palpable and are surprising in their present-day resonance.
Language, voice, and sound open up a space for listening in which movements of thought, doubt, and conflict are just as present as affection, humor, and everyday life.
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In MY BLACK DEVIL, Devid Striesow and Gioia Osthoff open up a compelling view of two defining personalities of the 20th century: Anna and Sigmund Freud.
From their decades-long correspondence emerges a focused, moving evening in which language, voice, and sound condense into an intimate portrait between closeness and emancipation.
Bring this precise, moving, and highly contemporary evening to your stage and give your audience the opportunity to rediscover Anna and Sigmund Freud.