Munich Kammerspiele: Anne Habermehl’s “Mrs. Schmidt and the Child from Kharkiv” – Culture

But Ms. Schmidt would like to know a little more about that. Yes, interesting, the aerial photos of the destroyed Mannheim and the rubble of Heinrich Lanz AG. But they are from 1943. She is looking for the year 1944. For finds in archives that no longer exist. So she writes, submits applications. The war has been over for ten years, her husband is dead, now she wants to know what happened: “My husband was in Ukraine on behalf of your company. He came back strangely. Jumped up at night and tore open the windows. Then hung on window and breathed. In and out like an animal.” The remnants of the company that manufactured agricultural machinery have long been in the USA: “Please pay particular attention to the beautiful SS engravings on the Bulldog 2 tractor variants when you rush along the Californian fields with them.”