nothing in between
Uraufführung 16. November 2000, Heidelberg
Manchmal wacht man verwundert in einem fremden Hinterhof auf: des Begehrens, des anderen Landes, der eigenen - nicht wieder zuerkennenden - Familie und gesteht sich ein,
das Herz schlägt woanders schneller : Auf die unendliche, staubige Spur, die " Dazwischen" heisst, Kontinente, Gefühle und Bindungen durchquert, geradelinig und
aufregend zugleich.
"Home is where the heart is. Alternatively, home is so sad. Bland´s attitude towards his flat was the somewhat shifting point at which these two attitudes
conjoined. When he was away from it he thought of it longingly, as the place which would always provide him with the refuge from the world. When he was actually inside
it, safe and warm and quiet, as he had always wished to be, it exasperated him, precisely on account of those same qualities for which he had felt such intense
nostalgia. The quietness, which he cherished, tormented him. There seemed to be no way in which he could reseolve this dichotomy of feeling."
Anita Brookner: A Private View
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