The family album

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The family album is both a children's play and a picture book .
The story deals with the topic of sexual abuse of children in the family in a child-friendly manner.

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The family album is about a family of mice: mother, father, daughters Pisa and Nießchen and their uncle Watja. The entire family lives in a sofa, in front of which one day a cat appears. However, the external threat ultimately brings a much greater danger to the surface - the 'dear' Uncle Watja has been sexually assaulting towards his niece Nießchen for a long time. And he forces the mouse girl to keep these experiences a secret.
The confrontation with the cat as an external enemy ultimately creates an exceptional situation in which the girl is able to confide in her sister. Then the uncle's threats do not come true, but Nießchen receives support from her mother - and the uncle falls into the cat's trap.

Play

The family album , written by Sylvia Deinert and Tine Krieg, was performed for the first time in 1984 by the Hamburg Fundus Theater. The puppet theater play is still performed nationwide, for several years now by the Tandera Theater in cooperation with the association Dunkelziffer e. V.

Picture book

The picture book Das Familienalbum was developed by Sylvia Deinert, Tine Krieg (text) and Ulrike Boljahn (illustration) in the early 1990s on the basis of the children's play of the same name. It was published for the first time in 1992 and was awarded the Oldenburg Children's and Youth Book Prize in the same year .

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