The Caucasian Chalk Circle
by Berthold Brecht / Music by Paul Dessau in an adaptation of Paul Pötsch
Marguerre-Saal
[recommended for ages 16 and up]
Putsch in Georgia! Governors executed! Civil war! In these old and bloody times, the kitchen maid Grusche finds a little child left behind in the confusion of flight and displacement. She takes it in, feeds it and raises it. She even risks her engagement to the soldier Simon for that. Even more: Grusche flees to the mountains to protect the child from the ironshirts who are tracing the descendant and heir to the unseated governor. After the civil war, the governor’s wife claims the child she has given birth to.
Created in 1944 and updated as well as amended time and again, Bertolt Brecht’s great parable »The Caucasian Chalk Circle« talks about motherhood and motherly love, justice and right, war and flight as well as the all encompassing question: Who does the Earth belong to?
The production of the decorative parts is carried out in the workshops of the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg.
A complete list of all employees of the technical departments involved can be found here.
Listen to an introduction by Jürgen Popig (in German) here.
Trailer by Siegersbuschfilm