Staged reading by Anne Bennent with musical accompaniment by Otto Lechner and commentary on the content by curator Daniela Gregori.

In post-war Zagreb, Tilla Durieux wrote her memoirs, which were successfully published in 1952 with the title Eine Türe steht offen. With these she went on a reading tour – the manuscript deeply internalized, she seemed to chat about her life in interviews ready for print.
Shortly before her 90th birthday, the actress was finally persuaded by Joachim Werner Preuss to add to the years following the publication of the first autobiography. The first sound recordings were made for this purpose, but the book only appeared posthumously under the title My First Ninety Years.
Durieux undoubtedly enjoyed summarizing and writing down what she had experienced; in the memoirs in particular, she managed to embed what she herself had experienced in the history and issues of the time, and the descriptions were always lively and cheerful. What could be more obvious than to let Durieux herself narrate her life for one evening? On the basis of individual passages, “key moments” of this impressive life are retold and linked in dialogue with supplementary comments.

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