A Radio play based on the artist’s book of the same name by Liliane Lijn.
Editing and Translation : Gaby Hartel
Composition. : zeitblom
Director. : Giuseppe Maio
Dramaturgy : Sabine Küchler
Composition. : zeitblom
Director. : Giuseppe Maio
Dramaturgy : Sabine Küchler
Her Mother’s Voice focuses on memory and an individual’s history, which is also the history of the artist and on a broader scale that of the forced exoduses and resettlements of a generation of Russian and European Jews.
Lijn’s parents belonged to a generation of Jews who faced extermination. Through their stories, as in a cracked and smokey mirror, Lijn sees herself reflected as if she were formed before her birth by the choices which they made.
In Her Mother’s Voice, Lijn asked her mother to remember her life. She then transcribed the oral tapes, endeavouring to retain the unique character of her voice.
Ian Rawes