Photo: Gianmarco Bresadola, 2014
Photo: Gianmarco Bresadola, 2014 
Photo: Gianmarco Bresadola, 2014
Photo: Gianmarco Bresadola, 2014 
Photo: Gianmarco Bresadola, 2014
Photo: Gianmarco Bresadola, 2014 
Photo: Gianmarco Bresadola, 2014
Photo: Gianmarco Bresadola, 2014 
Photo: Gianmarco Bresadola, 2014
Photo: Gianmarco Bresadola, 2014 
Photo: Gianmarco Bresadola, 2014
Photo: Gianmarco Bresadola, 2014 
Photo: Gianmarco Bresadola, 2014
Photo: Gianmarco Bresadola, 2014 
Photo: Gianmarco Bresadola, 2014
Photo: Gianmarco Bresadola, 2014 
Photo: Gianmarco Bresadola, 2014
Photo: Gianmarco Bresadola, 2014 
 

This grave is too small for me

by Biljana Srbljanović
Direction: Mina Salehpour

German translation by Vukan Mihailović de Deo and Aleksandra Pejović, revised by Renata Britvec
Workshop production

06/03/2014, 20.00–21.00

For the last time

Sarajevo, 1914. Partly from boredom, partly from political conviction, Serbian youths Gavrilo Princip and Nedeljko participate in ineffectual student protests. Suddenly, however, Austrian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand announces he will visit the town. Gavrilo and Nedeljko scent an opportunity. Together with their friend Danilo and Apis, a ringleader of secret Serbian nationalist organisation the Black Hand, they plan to assassinate Franz Ferdinand. Nedeljko throws a bomb but the only person the explosion kills is Danilo’s sister, 15-year old Ljubica. A few minutes later, Gavrilo shoots Franz Ferdinand dead. Gavrilo’s and Nedeljko’s suicide attempt with cyanide fails and the two are transported to the military prison at Theresienstadt. Danilo, also arrested, is hung on the spot. Biljana Srbljanović tells the story of the assassination of Sarajevo, which kick-starts the First World War, from the perspective of the adolescents that write history more or less by accident.

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By: Biljana Srbljanović
Direction: Mina Salehpour
Stage design: Céline Demars
Costume Design: Valerie Gasse
Music: Markus Hübner
Dramaturgy: Maja Zade
Gavrilo Princip: Bernardo Arias Porras
Nedeljko Čabrinović: Konstantin Shklyar
Danilo Ilić: Tilman Strauß
Ljubica Ilić: Luise Wolfram
Dragutin Dimitrijević Apis: Ulrich Hoppe
Duration: ca. 60 minutes