A play by Dagmar Papula
French translation: Irène Kuhn et Pièrre Deshusses
Directed and produced by: Jürgen Kloth
Scenery: Maciej Siemen
Music: André Feldhaus
Starring: Marlen Breitinger, Norbert Kentrup, Martin Lüttge and Dagmar Papula
A co-production of SHAKESPEARE und PARTNER and Theaterhof Preissenthal
This play is about the less well known lives of the Brothers Grimm who are famous the world over for their fairy tales. The so-called “oldest pair in the world” dedicated their lives to science and the German language. Destiny however had other plans for them.
What seems like the ingredients for a comical disaster turns out to be a practical and fruitful arrangement for the brothers and Wilhelm’s wife Doertchen Grimm who all live under the same roof.
The brothers eventually become involved in a whirlpool of political arbitrariness for they cannot explain to their students or to God why an oath can no longer be an oath. As a result, they are branded as members of the notorious “Göttingen Seven” and were relieved of their posts at the university and forced to leave town.
With neither jobs nor prospects they were desperate but then a certain Bettina von Arnem, an old childhood friend, manages to secure professorships for them at Humboldt University in Berlin. So The Brothers Grimm is also a play about true friendship in times of need and about the first, still uncertain steps of German democracy.
Various friends of the theatre, future actors and the general public of Ljublana followed the play with enthusiasm! During and after the break, the audience enjoyed a glas of champaign and discussed the play as the project itself intensively.
