Residents
based on the records of the psychiatrist Christoph Held
in cooperation with schauspiel erlangen and the international figuren.theater.festival Erlangen Nuremberg Fürth Schwabach
puppet theatre for 16 year olds and older
Director: Moritz Sostmann | Stage design and costumes: Klemens Kühn
Puppets: Hagen Tilp | Music: Albrecht Ziepert
Cast: Johannes Benecke, Tomas Mielentz
Premiere in Erlangen: 23 May 2025
Premiere in Erfurt: 7 November 2025, at 7:30 p.m.
Stories against forgetting
An actress, a banker, an Italian guest worker, a drug addict, a depressive – they all live in a dementia ward, and dementia lives in them. They only remember fragments of their lives. Nevertheless, their stories want to be told. The biographies of the residents reflect different aspects of human existence, although or precisely because the dementia patients are thrown back to the mere essence of their personality.
The realisation of this production is supported by the Förderverein Theater Erlangen.
Performance rights: Dörlemann Verlag AG