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"Sophie!": From the life of the resistance fighter

2022-05-23T09:41:25.643Z


"Sophie!": From the life of the resistance fighter Created: 05/23/2022, 11:33 am By: Sabina Brosch The EMG students threw flyers into the air on stage, like the ones Sophie Scholl let sail into the atrium of the LMU. © Sabina Brosch Sophie Scholl was a resistance fighter, but she was also a normal young woman. An aspect that the theater group of the Haarer Gymnasium examines in their new play.


"Sophie!": From the life of the resistance fighter

Created: 05/23/2022, 11:33 am

By: Sabina Brosch

The EMG students threw flyers into the air on stage, like the ones Sophie Scholl let sail into the atrium of the LMU.

© Sabina Brosch

Sophie Scholl was a resistance fighter, but she was also a normal young woman.

An aspect that the theater group of the Haarer Gymnasium examines in their new play.

Haar

– Sophie Scholl is one of the most important women of the 20th century, brave and courageous, one who represented her ideals to the death.

This bravery often makes her appear as an unattainable idol, with the view of her life being forgotten.

It is precisely this line of life that the students of the Ernst-Mach-Gymnasium (EMG) theater group in Haar traced in a play and reflected on Scholl's life with their own.

Scholl's history is well known: childhood near Ulm, the sheltered family, her religiosity and musicality, her early enthusiasm for National Socialism and its leader Adolf Hitler, joining the group of young girls, her first infatuation, but also the turning away from the totalitarian regime and finally the active resistance, which she paid for with her life on February 22, 1943.

The first performance in honor of Sophie Scholl's 100th birthday in March 2021 did not take place in the auditorium of the EMG due to the corona, but on Munich's Königsplatz.

The unusual birthday serenade, staged by Farina Simbeck and Thomas Ritter, directors of the EMG theater groups, has now been performed by 13 schoolgirls between the ages of 13 and 16 at the EMG: a commemoration in body images, enriched with original quotes.

Lean back and let the piece go by?

Not possible.

As always, the language of the body and the meaning of the word dominate.

No stage set, only black cloths hanging down on which pictures and videos are played, a few balloons lying around, the colors of which reflect the current mood: white-blue for childhood and youth, black for the dark time when the seizure of power and red when the first romantic develop feelings for Fritz Hartnagel.

A metal framework used as a dock at the court hearing.

Viewers need to look and listen carefully to appreciate the details in and around the piece.

Leaning back and letting the piece go by is not possible with “Sophie!” either.

Scholl and her comrades-in-arms “infected” EMG theater boss Ritter three years ago when he was a guest at the ceremony of the Geschwister-Scholl-Prize at the LMU.

It quickly became clear to him that he wanted to and would make the resistance fighter a different topic.

"It's about the change of perspective," explains Ritter.

"Of course Sophie was extraordinary, but still a completely normal young woman." So it was supposed to be a performance together with the White Rose Foundation, in which the ideas of the White Rose were related to the everyday reality of the young people.

"What do you think, Sophie, about us?"

As always, the school theater group itself was involved in the development, traced Scholl's life in a research phase and created scenic moments from it.

All 13 students fluently take on the role of Sophie and tie into their own wishes and dreams with sentences such as “I will study biology like you!” or “I love the smell of summer rain”.

As a group, they embody the compliant mass of regime hangers-on, "marching" through the years of dictatorship and hitting the ground running into the now: "1941: Battle of Kyiv," says a girl into the sudden silence, "2022: Battle of Kyiv." .

The actors' voices become thin and brittle, for example when they talk about the killings in Eglfing, the atrocities of the Second World War, but also when schoolgirl Nelly says: "I'm depressed,

The young actresses and Sophie Scholl are about 80 years apart, but they are in a similar phase of life.

The question "What do you think about us, Sophie?" shows that a bond developed that goes far beyond the stage of the EMG auditorium.

More news from Haar and the district of Munich can be found here.

Source: merkur

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