How does a society reflect on itself when the guns are silent but the wounds are still open? The Lahnstein Theater will focus on a profound examination of the time after the catastrophe starting in March. Under the title "After the War on the Middle Rhine," a comprehensive project will commence that combines scientific analysis and artistic reflection.
The core of the series is the contemporary historical lecture series, in which experienced city archivists and private researchers will address the question of how the end of the war in 1945 unfolded in the region between Koblenz and Kaub from various local historical perspectives over five evenings from March 17 to June 23.

How does one tell the story of one's own mother? Born in East Prussia over a hundred years ago, fleeing before the Red Army, arriving somewhere in the German West via detours, and there, in the new life, in the new time after the war, of which there was soon no more talk, remaining always a stranger. A stranger even to her own daughter, who kept moving further away until her mother's story eventually became incomprehensible.

“Moles” is the novel of an approach. In ever new attempts, Dagmar Leupold tries to regain what has been lost. She draws on what remains of her mother's life: everyday objects, habits, photos, well-used words and sentences: everything that speaks from the mother to her across time.
She listens to this speaking to eavesdrop on its secrets and the unsaid, and continually finds traces of a trauma.

The reading is a cooperative event between the Lahnstein City Library and the Lahnstein Theater and will take place on June 19 at 7:30 p.m. at the theater.
You can get tickets online on the Lahnstein Theater's website, at the Lahnstein Tourist Information, or at all ticket retail outlets of Ticket Regional.