When a woman looks out of the window and wonders whether it is high enough - and yet stays, cooks, cleans and laughs, then she carries a story within her. These stories are confided to friends and told to daughters when they are old enough. But not to anyone else, because no one else would understand them. The women have come from far away to a place where they know nothing - except their husband. And this man becomes everything for them.

Merve Kayikci and Dorothea Schroeder have spoken to many such women in Germany. Their faded dreams and grown hopes live with us in this country. Their stories have been turned into an interactive station theater that invites us all to really see and understand these mothers, neighbors and fellow human beings - and to learn their names.

Theater project by Merve Kayikci and Dorothea Schroeder23.2.2025, 16.0025.2.2025, 19.0026.2.2025, 19.00

Meeting point: Ulmer Str. 11, next to "Trachten Huber"

Note: "Import Brides" is a station theater piece. Seating is not available throughout. Weatherproof clothing is recommended.

Director: Dorothea Schroeder, author: Merve Kayikci, costume designer: Marie Wildmann, technical director: Philipp Dahlke, production manager: Lisa Bühler, assistant director: Simone Kukral
With: Elif Esmen, Karoline Stegemann, Ayşe Karaağaç, Ruken Nas, Rin Proißl, Miriam Radlinger, Payman Rasho, Marie Schweizer, Sinan Yildirim

A production by AKA:NYX in cooperation with the Brechtfestival and the Staatstheater Augsburg. Supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the District of Swabia.

Photo: Jan-Pieter Fuhr