German House

About the show

A young interpreter is hastily summoned to translate during a trial concerning Auschwitz atrocities, hearing for the first time the incomprehensible acts that the early German Federal Republic had concealed beneath a façade of postwar normalcy. The production explores the beginning of a reckoning that remains unresolved, examining personal entanglement and the choice between witnessing or turning away. Adapted for the stage by director Jorinde Dröse and dramaturg Johanna Vater from Annette Hess's debut novel, the work confronts the question of collective responsibility: what did we truly know, and what did we choose not to see?