Tove Dillevsen’s “Die Deviklerin” on the Hamburg Schauspiel | EUROtoday

At the top of her final novel, “Vilhelms Zimmer” (1975), the Danish author Tove Ditlevsen wrote soberly how she wished to commit suicide. For this description, nevertheless, she slipped into the position of the Lise, additionally a author who stuffed her bag with sleeping drugs, milk packages, lemonade and cigarettes. Under her arm she caught her son’s sleeping bag, drove into the forest and selected a quiet place.

But she was discovered regardless of a physique temperature of 26 levels and might be saved – which meant a ache for Lise that dying would have most well-liked. It additionally noticed Tove Ditlevesen, which – mentally unstable, depressed and hooked on tablets – was repeatedly instructed in psychiatric clinics. In 1976 she left life along with her personal hand when she was 58 years outdated.

In the Schauspielhaus Hamburg, the director Karin Henkel “Vilhelms Zimmer” introduced on stage below the title “Die Handichlerin”. The staging begins with the unsuccessful suicide. The actress Lina Beckmann is available in as Lise/Tove within the black skirt to the black shirt with heavy steps as a result of she drags a nook of the physique behind her. When she opens its zipper, the dancer Liina Magnea, who wears the identical clothes as she and a facial masks, pees out how a break up model of Lise works and is now silent. Despite all the things, Lise is a robust, gripping girl, in whom you do not know precisely the place the fact ends and the place the hallucination begins.