"Unser Deutschlandmärchen"

"Is this my home, my earth, my place? Should I fill the void of an emptiness here?" In Dinçer Güçyeter's novel "Our German Fairytale", two generations of women - mother and grandmother - speak, as does the son of Fatma, who came to Nettetal in 1965 as the wife of a Turkish guest worker. In powerful images, poetry, monologues, dialogues, prayers and dreams, the novel tells of hard work and great strength, of old role models and the departure into the new, of uprootedness and longing. It is a tribute to women and tells a piece of German history in a new, sensual and humorous language. Güçyeter's debut novel, published by "mikrotext", was awarded the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2023. Director Antigone Akgün, who has already wowed audiences in Aachen with her production of "Der Garten der Lüste", is adapting the novel for the Kammer stage.