Judith Jakob & Joachim Jezewski

In a lyrical-musical journey, actress and singer Judith Jakob traces the life of Mascha Kaléko through poems, diary entries and musical settings. The Jewish poet from Chrzanów (now Poland), who came to Germany at the age of 7, observes people and formulates their longings. Kaléko's poetry deals with everyday situations that we all know: love and separation, hope and loneliness. The "everyday poet" published her first poems at the age of 22 and conquered the hearts of city dwellers in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. Her verses are melancholy and witty with a pinch of irony and feature a timeless mixture of charm and social criticism. Kaléko captures the tone of her time. And she meets Tucholsky and Claire Waldoff, and is compared with Ringelnatz and Heine, among others.
During National Socialism, Kaléko's works were banned and the poet emigrated to America with her husband and child, where years of poverty and isolation followed. She spent the last 15 years of her life in Israel and visited Berlin for the last time in 1974.
This musical production is a tribute to an extraordinary woman whose poetry has lost none of its topicality. "I will be silent, but my song will go on." (Masche Kaléko)

Image: Bürgerstiftung im Holzhausenschlösschen, A. Englert