Happening (Das Ereignis)

The termination of a pregnancy is a very private but also a highly political decision. "Happening" by Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is the unsparing account of an illegal abortion by first-person narrator during her time as a student in 1963 France.

Das Ereignis

Ernaux describes both the actual, life-endangering intervention into and society’s encroachment on a female body, including the latter’s powerful mechanisms such as disenfranchisement and stigmatisation. Seen from various points in time, Ernaux is searching for a truthful language to express her memories of a topic that is still largely suppressed today and yet concerns us collectively. As Annie, the young student of literature, endures "the happening" for her physical autonomy as a woman alone and barely survives, later in life, the writer Ernaux experiences the language that she finds for this experience as a happening in itself.

Dates for performance with English surtitles can be found on berliner-ensemble.de

Artists/Collaborators: von Annie Ernaux (Autor/in), Nina Bruns, Pauline Knof, Kathrin Wehlisch, Laura Linnenbaum, Daniel Roskamp, Michaela Kratzer, David Rimsky-Korsakow, Rainer Casper, Amely Joana Haag

Runtime: Mon, 05/05/2025 to Sat, 19/09/2026

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• Date Friday, 18/September/2026 20:00 bis 21:20 ( 1 more date )
• Venue Berliner Ensemble - Neues Haus
• Address Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
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