Theater festival: Something is alive, hope is sprouting. Wonderful!

With “Imported Brides – My Veil, the Henna and Her Tears”, the Augsburg Brecht Festival takes you to places where theatre becomes truth and overcomes all artificiality.

Although you obviously know better, for a moment you think you're about to end up at a Turkish wedding. You're sitting in a bridal shop in Augsburg-Oberhausen, Ulmer Strasse, a district that could make an AfD voter's pulse race - it's funny here. Before that you met the groom's mother in a hair salon, now the bride's mother is sitting among wedding dresses, and it's the theatrical persuasiveness of the two actresses, Elif Esmen and Karoline Stegemann, that wins you over as a potential wedding guest - you're powerless. But at the core it's not about a wedding at all, but about henna night: a kind of bridal shower at Muslim weddings, where the bride says goodbye to her family and friends.