THE LOST HONOUR OF KATHARINA BLUM

About the show

1974: A young woman leaves her apartment to attend a private dance. Four days later, she turns herself in to the police and confesses to shooting a journalist. She shows no remorse. What happened to Katharina Blum in the preceding days? What led to this dramatic turn of events? In his famous novella, Heinrich Böll reconstructs the exemplary story of an escalation of violence through transcripts, reports, and witness statements. With his stage adaptation of Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum, Bastian Kraft paints a picture of a profoundly patriarchal society in which populism and sexism work together destructively.