Theater Na de Dam: David Roos - De Gedroomden

The Dreamed

Paul Celan lost both parents in the concentration camps, Ingeborg Bachmann is the daughter of a Nazi. In post-war Vienna they fall in love, then lose sight of each other, wander through Europe, and each develop in their own way into the poetic voice of a generation. In the meantime, they write letters to each other, all their lives.

These letters tell the story of a dramatic love, of a Europe full of trauma and guilt, and of two poets who seek a way out of the burden of the past in language. What can poetry do in the face of politics?