RAHEL - DIE WEGE MUSS MAN SUCHEN

Over tea and sandwiches, all class distinctions were erased in her attic room on the Gendarmenmarkt: she was the conversational partner of numerous men and women, nobles and burghers, military officers, artists and philosophers, including the Humboldt brothers, Bettina von Arnim, Fichte, Hegel, Schlegel, Pauline Wessel and Prince Louis Ferdinand. And yet, throughout her life, Rahel Varnhagen felt a double exclusion: as a woman and as a Jew.

Anette Daugardt plays Rahel Varnhagen; Uwe Neumann embodies her interlocutors such as Wilhelm von Humboldt, who in a letter to his wife calls his old friend Rahel Varnhagen a "calculating Jew-mamsel", as well as Heinrich Heine, for whom she was the "wittiest woman in the universe".

"What is man in the end but a question, only to question, to question he is here." (Rahel Varnhagen)