Ophelia Comes to Brooklyn is a theatre script that Antje Katcher wrote in 1982. In 1967, when she was 20 years old, she emigrated from a small German town to New York City. When she died in 2014, she left an inheritance for her niece, Katja Dreyer, which included letters, poems, objects, a group of friends… all fragments of an unwritten biography. In Ophelia comes to Brooklyn, three actors try to decipher the story - the play and the life of Antje herself. A journey through place and time: Germany in the 50s, Russia in the 60s, New York in the 70s. Along with poetry readings, feminist protests and a commemoration ceremony. How did Antje reinvent herself in The New World?
2018
In Kroniek, Katja Dreyer departs from Traumland, a large vessel originally from Berlin, now anchored in Mechelen and which is a hundred years old. She lets us experience the past century, always through the eyes of a woman who is 40 years old in 1914, 1924, 1934, 1944, 1954 ... A dive into the eventful history of Germany and Belgium, in which facts and fiction, the everyday and the historical constantly merge.
2013