As of: January 22, 2024, 9:00 a.m
By: Richard Lorenz
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They met in the Pallotti House: Bärbel Jogschies, Gisela Landesberger and Nancy Thym.
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With stories that touch hearts and bring people closer together around a table – that is one of the basic ideas of the “Gute Stube” story festival.
Freising
- At the weekend, lovers of the spoken word were able to be taken on a wide variety of dream journeys by citizens in a total of eight private rooms, which were sometimes humorous, biographically colored or melancholically fairytale-like like the one by Odile Néri-Kaiser, which took place in the living room of The Ahrens family enchanted the listeners.
What was particularly fascinating about the narrator was that thanks to her fine language, her incredible stage presence and her very noticeable love for stories, everything in this Freising living room immediately became as quiet as a mouse.
Eight private rooms packed with stories
Eight private rooms and therefore eight rooms full of stories were available to the word-loving Freisingers to choose from on Saturday - just like the living room of Heinz and Irmtraud Ahrens.
Before the story evening began at 7 p.m., the FT naturally wanted to know how it came about that they opened their front door to strangers.
“We read about it in the newspaper,” Heinz Ahrens remembered in his living room.
“Spoken language is becoming less and less, everything is backed up with images, just the spoken word is never enough.”
A small group registered with the Ahrens at 7 p.m., including the author and theater player Angela Spiekermann.
“This is something completely new in Freising, that’s why we’re here today,” said Spiekermann, who had Doris Thomas from the Querspiel theater club in tow.
In the Ahrens family's living room, Odile Neri-Kaiser told her stories on Saturday.
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While the last guests were arriving and some of them even had their slippers with them, Néri-Kaiser was already mentally packing the suitcase that was central to her story “Martha's Gift”.
A story that arose in a group of older people, says Néri-Kaiser - and that then grew into what she was talking about on Saturday.
Néri-Kaiser, who lived in Lyon for a long time and worked there as a social worker, among other things, charmingly managed to immediately create a wonderful atmosphere in the living room - starting with a quiet French poem that transformed Freising into Montmartre.
Because her story also took place in Paris, which began with a strange letter from a retirement home that fluttered into Suzanne's life.
The reason: Her Aunt Martha is becoming unruly and no longer sticks to the rules.
Only now does Suzanne remember Martha, the heroine of her childhood.
Néri-Kaiser covered a wide range in her story and used the narrative mechanisms of a modern fairy tale without ever using traditional cross-references.
She effortlessly managed to tell a story that touched the heart and soul, stimulated thought and illuminated philosophical perspectives on life.
The goosebumps moments: The narrator accompanied the events surrounding the immersion in the old photographs in Martha's suitcase with quiet French chansons.
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After just over an hour, it became clear how demanding and exhausting good storytelling is.
“I have to sit down now,” explained Néri-Kaiser with a smile, while the guests, very moved by the story about life, death and what remains of loved ones afterwards, sat briefly in the living room.
“For me,” said Néri-Kaiser after the performance, “the story is truer than true.”
Heinz Ahrens, on the other hand, was searching for words and put it this way: “I’m completely enchanted, that was really great!”
Lots of good rooms
Already on Thursday, Gisela Landesberger, Nancy Thym and Bärbel Jogschies performed “Unruly Story(s)” in the Palotti House series of events.
On Friday you could experience the entire diversity of storytelling with eight storytellers at the Gute Stube Gala in the Lindenkeller.