Tattoo (drama)

Tattoo is a drama by Dea Loher , from 1992. World premiere at Ensemble Theater am Südstern Berlin, 1992

The focus is on violent family incest . Loher shows how the perverted tendency to violence is hidden behind fatherly love and good people.

Paul, a florist who “takes care of flowers”, realizes late that Anita, with whom he is in love, is raped by her father ( Anita: “Fear. He stands by my bed every night. His bare hands have such violence. Fear "; Paul:" That must have an end " ) Paul wants to free Anita from the" tattoo "by marriage ( the bad father's mark, the whole shame belongs out ), free. Then Paul learns that the mother Jule tolerates everything and Anita's sister Lulu is already looking forward to the defloration by the father, since it is "so beautiful" . Paul gets the gun, but then he hands it to Anita, who is supposed to kill the father.

Dea Loher's piece is one of the most important German-language pieces of the 1990s.

literature

• Dea Loher: tattoo . In: Diess .: Olga's room . Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt / M. 2003, ISBN 3-88661-152-3
• Dea Loher: tattoo . Klett, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-12-351601-6 (for literature lessons )