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Jürgen Flügge plays “Edith and Mina”
The story of a friendship, written down, narrated and performed by Jürgen Flügge, can be seen at the AGORA cinema at Ostbahnhof.
Mina's son finds an old suitcase in the attic, full of letters and postcards dating from 1934 to the 1950s. Among them are photographs in old envelopes, the stamps bearing portraits of Hitler and Heuss. Letters and cards from the USA are also present, written by Jewish friends who had to flee the Nazis. Memories are stirred of his mother and her youth in Stockstadt in the Ried region of southern Hesse, which also shaped his own. Memories of his friendship with Edith and her family, for whom Mina worked as a maid, and of the brutal daily life of the Jewish family when the Nazis came to power. But also memories of the deep friendship between Edith and Mina. All of this is revealed and documented by the original documents from Mina's suitcase. Stories and anecdotes intertwine to form a tale of a friendship that tries to escape the realities of everyday life under National Socialism.
