I don't want blueberry pie, I just want to get out.

Ilse remained silent about her mother Marie until the end. It was only after Ilse's death that her daughter Gabí found over 170 letters from Marie, who warned of the catastrophe from Berlin with increasing urgency and saw her daughter Ilse in Basel as her only salvation. When Ilse finally decides to save her mother from the Nazis, it is too late and Marie's escape to Switzerland fails when she tries to cross the border at Hohenems. The granddaughter Gabí is the narrator and master of ceremonies who lends body and voice to the two dead women. Yael Schüler slips into this Gabí, who slips into the bodies of her mother and grandmother. She gets to know Marie's sarcasm, lives through the hysteria and longings of her beloved and hated mother, sinks into the absurdities of Swiss bureaucracy and searches for a raison d'être for herself in the extremes of the war generations. She must become her foremothers, must chase their experiences through her body in order to finally be able to lead her own life beyond the inherited conflicts and traumas. The play is an attempt at emancipation from the speechlessness of indescribable horror and an appeal to the dead with the force of antiquity. Play: Yael Schüler Director/ text version: Jan Viethen Production: y-productions With the kind support of: Saly Frommer Foundation Basel, Dr. h.c. Emile Dreyfus Foundation Basel, Paul Grüninger Foundation St. Gallen, Adolf and Mary Mil Foundation Zurich