Uwe Johnson: Anniversaries - from the life of Gesine Cresspahl

With Charly Hübner and Caren Miosga
Piano/music: Ninon Gloger
Text montage/direction: Wolfgang Stockmann

The performance with Caren Miosga, Charly Hübner and Ninon Gloger (music/piano) is a journey through the narrative flow of the 1,875-page novel in which Gesine Cresspahl tells her ten-year-old daughter Marie about her own family history day by day over the course of a year. She presents exemplary characters, episodes, conversations, memories, reports and newspaper articles from the New York Times and everyday events in New York in 1967/1968, in the midst of the Vietnam War, student protests and the preparations for the invasion of Soviet troops into the C.S.S.R.

Exciting, entertaining, touching and socio-politically topical.

Press reviews:

"After occasional murmurs and applause, the performers, accompanied by Ninon Gloger on the piano (...) opened up their own access to Johnson's cosmos (...) From the moment the spotlights flickered on, you were right in the middle of Johnson's narrative stream, spanning time and place. - Hanno Müller (TA Erfurt)

"skilfully staged (...) In addition, pianist Ninon Gloger creates sounds on the keyboard. She does this so skilfully that the text always has the say. Sometimes she accompanies it with appropriate moods, sometimes she undermines it (...) the beguilingly beautiful "Blackbird" by the Beatles...". - Hanno Kabel (LN Lübeck)

„the reading attracted the audience in droves - and impressed! (...) Caren Miosga's sensitive, touching presence and the acting class of Charly Hübner, who also brilliantly brings the Mecklenburg background to life, combine with the musical drive of pianist Ninon Gloger to create an evening that can win over many new and returning readers. - Susanne Schulz (Strelitzer Zeitung)