BY ANNIE ERNAUX
"The Event" (2000) by Nobel Prize winner for literature Annie Ernaux is a relentless testimony that retrospectively recounts an illegal abortion performed by the first-person narrator Annie while she was studying in France in 1963.
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Berliner Ensemble Außenansicht
An abortion is a very personal decision and always a political one, as it touches on issues of jurisdiction, gender, religion, and class.
At the same time, Ernaux describes the concrete, life-threatening intervention in as well as the social grip on the female body and its powerful mechanisms, such as incapacitation and stigmatization. From different time levels, Ernaux seeks a truthful language for her memories about a topic that has often been kept silent and collective until today.
Just as the young literary student Annie endures "the event" for her bodily self-determination as a woman alone and barely survives, in Ernaux's later work as an author, the language she finds for it becomes the event itself.
(Program in German)
Additional information
We do apologize that the following information is currently only available in German.
Participating artists
von Annie Ernaux (Autor/in)
Nina Bruns
Pauline Knof
Kathrin Wehlisch
Laura Linnenbaum
Daniel Roskamp
Michaela Kratzer
David Rimsky-Korsakow
Rainer Casper
Amely Joana Haag
Dates
May 2025
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