NURZUR ANSICHT NICHTFÜRVERTRIEBAUFFÜHRUNGEN DURCH MUSIKUNDBÜHNE

Private Address: Storgata 7, Lillestrøm

Current religion: None

Previous religion: Jewish by birth

Marital status: Single

Nationality: German Citizenship: German

When did you come to Norway: January 30th, 1939.

SCENE 13

(In a synagogue. We hear the Hebrew prayer ”Avinu Malkeinu”, a prayer for peace. RUTH is isolated from the others, singing her own poem "Nothing exists" over this. RUTH is clearly maladaptive, she feels like a stranger. But she still wants to be one of them.)

ENSEMBLE:

AVINU MALKEINU, CHANEINU V´ANEINU, KI EIN BANU MA´ASIM.

ASSEI IMANU TS´DAKAH VACHESED, VEHOSHIYEINU.

(I.e.: Hear our voice, Lord our God, pity and be compassionate to us, and accept – with compassion and favour – our prayer.)

RUTH:

NOTHING EXISTS, NOTHING BUT THE TREMBLING OF EMPTINESS HERE IN MY CHEST.

OH, ALL THE WORDS YOU GAVE ME, ARE THEY GONE NOW? ARE THEY GONE?

THAT WINDOW, WHICH OPENS ACROSS OF A BRIGHT SUMMER, THAT RED, BLUSHING CLOUD EXTENDING OVER A QUIVERING TREE´S GOLDEN CROWN, WHAT ELSE DO I WANT, THAN THIS? WHAT ELSE HAVE I WANTED?

AND YET, YOU OMNISCIENT –WHERE CAME THIS EMPTINESS FROM IF NOT PRECISELY THIS FEELING: A PAIN UNSPOKEN AS A BRIGHT NEW SUMMER.