A child, full of fear, comes to Germany – to the land of the murderers who wiped out the families of its parents. Here it is supposed to take root, build a life. The short gray pants worn by Julia Kathinka Philippi, Jacob Z. Eckstein, and Riccardo Ferreira on stage are a clear sign.

The man they embody together not only remembers his childhood and youth in the 1960s and early 1970s. It resonates. Friedman simply cannot free himself from the bitter, painful experiences of his childhood. His book "Fremd" strikingly revolves around the traumas of his parents, two survivors of the Shoah, and their impacts on his life. For the pain and hopes that he describes poetically condensed, Emel Aydoğdu finds a theatrical language that powerfully allows one to experience the feeling of eternal otherness.