Hakan Savaş Mican stages Dinçer Güçyeter’s “Our Germany Fairy Tale” at the Maxim Gorki Theater. A wonderful, philanthropic, necessary evening.
After the premiere, Fatma Güçyeter comes onto the stage of Berlin’s Maxim Gorki Theater with her son Dinçer for the final applause, a 76-year-old woman wearing a headscarf and a floor-length coat. If you wanted to describe her attitude in one word, it would be: dignity. This evening was exactly about this dignity, about how it is repeatedly violated and how much strength it takes to protect it. Fatma Güçyeter waves with a dry smile to the audience, who have just learned more about her life in the two hours of the theater performance than you know from most people you meet every day.