I expected my subconscious to show me fascinating images of my successful life as death approached. As if I had just suppressed them, those unique moments of fulfillment, love and political relevance. But what is happening here can be described as something quite below average, right? Before you die, your whole life flashes before your eyes, they say. The most beautiful moments! … They say.
I expected my subconscious to show me fascinating images of my successful life as death approached. As if I had just suppressed them, those unique moments of fulfillment, love and political relevance. But what is happening here can be described as something quite below average, right? Before you die, your whole life flashes before your eyes, they say. The most beautiful moments! … They say.
But what if a person breathing their last breath finds out that he has nothing to remember? That through all his life he postponed happiness and fulfillment of life until he finished school, until he began his career, until his children left home… until…
Sibylle Berg, the author of the popular production And Then came Mirna, again uncompromisingly targets the generation that performs their life milestones on Instagram rather than experiencing them to the full. And surely the world has disappeared with me looks back on the life of today’s millennial, which more than a dignified recollection, is reminiscent of a painfully embarrassing scroll through a Facebook timeline.
The play premiered at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin and was selected as play of the year 2020 by the prestigious theater magazine ‘Theater heute’.
The Czech Literary Fund Foundation and Goethe Institut supported the translation.
