Munich Kammerspiele actors scheduled to read Grete Weil's writing at the Monacensia

Actors from the Münchner Kammerspiele were scheduled to stage a dramatised reading of texts by the writer Grete Weil at the Monacensia in the Hildebrandhaus, Maria-Theresia-Straße 23, on Monday 9 November at 7pm. The reading, titled "Often I wanted to run away, I never did", draws on Weil's writing and biographical records.

Grete Weil was a writer, photographer and Holocaust survivor. Her work keeps returning to one question: how do you go on living when you were meant to die?

She was born in 1906 into a liberal Jewish family in Munich. Her husband, Edgar Weil, was a dramaturge at the Kammerspiele. He was taken into custody in 1933 after the Nazis seized power, and after his release the couple fled to Amsterdam. In 1941 he was arrested in a raid on the street, deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Upper Austria and murdered there. Grete Weil survived in hiding. In her writing she remained in conversation with him, trying to turn his absence into presence.

The texts were to be read by Annika Neugart, Samuel Koch and Kim Twiddle, directed by Sapir Heller. The event was organised by the Monacensia with the Münchner Kammerspiele as part of the programme accompanying the exhibition "Literature & Stance: Rachel Salamander's Archive".

Entry was free, but the event was fully booked in advance. A waiting list was available by email at [email protected]. Information about the exhibition can be found in the online magazine MON Mag, and further details about the Monacensia are available at www.monacensia.org.