One after the other, the actors enter the dark stage and sit on chairs arranged in a half-circle.
Thomas Melle's play, "Bilder von uns" (
Pictures of us) begins by separating the individuals from each other - and that is not a coincidence.
"No one is the only one," a victim will later say, "But each one is alone with their memories."
These are memories of the unspeakable: the abuse of a priest, who inappropriately touches the children in his care in the shower and sauna, who takes nude pictures of them, and even forces them to engage in sexual conduct. All of these things happened many years ago, in a school.