Natalja Althauser: Dunkelholz - Freiburger Andruck, Moderation: Ina Held

"Maybe I should think from the end to find the beginning."

Beech, spruce, fir and a few oaks are Lydia's new neighborhood. Everyday life in the abandoned hut quickly fills up with activities: Chopping wood, lighting the fire, cooking soup. Looking back on a life that once belonged to her - the long conversations with Markus at the kitchen table, bedtime stories for Clara, her blonde curls, her smell. How could it happen that she and her daughter have become completely estranged? And can she still fight the battle she thought she had lost?

In "Dunkelholz" (Piper, 2025), author, actress and director Natalja Althauser tells a poetic and tender story about perhaps the only unconditional love: the love of a mother for her child. And the question of where it ends. The evening will be hosted by Ina Held (SWR).
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Photo: © Diane von Schoen

Co-organizer "Freiburger Andruck": Kulturamt, municipal library, SWR Studio and Stadttheater as well as Badische Zeitung

Date: 23.9.2025, 19:30
Venue: SWR Studio Freiburg, Schlossbergsaal, Kartäuserstraße 45
Admission: 9/6 Euro

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