Flight and metamorphosis at The Jewish Theatre

FLIGHT AND METAMORPHOSIS
Nelly Sachs, Writer, Berlin / Stockholm
October 2 – November 20, 2010

During the autumn of 2010 The Jewish Theatre presented the poet and Nobel laureate Nelly Sachs’ life and work in a staged exhibition, Flight and Metamorphosis. Nelly Sachs, writer, Berlin/Stockholm. It was an interactive journey through the poetic universe of Nelly Sachs – a media poem of light, sound, images and movement, directed by theatre manager and artistic director Pia Forsgren. The exhibition was curated by writer Aris Fioretos in collaboration with gewerk design. It was inaugurated at the Jewish Museum in Berlin in the spring of 2010 and will tour Europe over the next two years. With Flight and Metamorphosis, The Jewish Theatre would like to recall a great poetic oeuvre and a moving human fate, and to invite reflection on the power of language and its significance for democracy.

Nelly Sachs (1891-1970) grew up in Berlin and lived there until she was 49 years old. Because of the Nazi takeover she was forced to flee her homeland, managing to get on the last plane to Stockholm. In her exile from the Holocaust, Nelly Sachs’ poetic language found its voice and in 1966 she won the Nobel Prize in literature.

“Knowledge about Nelly Sachs’ life story can be a good way of creating understanding and knowledge about the situation that many people in Sweden are in today. This is particularly important in a period when alienation and xenophobia are on the rise”, says Pia Forsgren, manager and artistic director of The Jewish Theatre.
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Photo: Olle Kirchmeier