Olga Romanova and Dima Zicer. The play "Frau" in Berlin from 22 to 23 February 2025

Olga Romanova and Dima Zicer present a unique documentary performance based on the lives of two very different women. One is an elderly German woman who once supported Nazism and Hitler, lived through World War II, and only after the defeat began to realize the scale of the crimes committed by Germany.

The other is Olga Romanova herself, a journalist, human rights activist, and public figure, whose biography also coincided in many ways with the "biography" of her country.

In 2013, journalist and playwright Artur Solomonov persuaded the then very elderly Berlin resident for a candid interview. Her story became the starting point for a play by director (and also educator, writer, blogger, radio host) Dima Zicer.

"Frau. Rehearsal" is an uncompromising and very personal attempt to answer the question: how did what happened to us happen? HOW was it possible to allow a dictator and murderer to start a terrible and ruthless war? Where was the point of no return, and were we not all - each in our own way - involved? It is impossible to answer these questions abstractly, "historically", avoiding the story of myself, my life, my victories and mistakes, my guilt. Olga Romanova, one of the brightest journalists of the nineties and two thousand years, does not try to avoid this. And she talks about herself so frankly that it becomes a conversation about us.