MALINA

About the show

In the beginning, "Malina" appears to be a romantic relationship: A woman torn between two men. But she can’t really fathom either of them and it soon becomes evident that there is more behind the disrupted phone conversations, the mythical stories, the nocturnal games of chess and the desperate monologues than mere romantic chaos. In fact, what is revealed is the life of a woman who dreams of overcoming the limitations of language and the violence of the past but is constantly thrown back to a feeling of being alien in the world: alien in her desire to belong, alien in her need for autonomy. In poetic and powerful language, Bachmann examines what it means when one’s own hopes don’t coincide with social expectations. What does it feel like to want to love in a world that knows no "We"?