'Murderer's House' - University of Victoria
'Murderer's House' - University of Victoria
'Murderer's House' - University of Victoria
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H.S.-B.: Yes, <strong>of</strong> course, this is a Brechtian style. I tried to create a line that is<br />
understandable for a child, but maybe not for a child <strong>of</strong> that age. Anyway, children<br />
watching things like that, they cannot reflect, they see that something happens. But if the<br />
mother would react by crying and fighting against the soldiers, and the soldier fighting<br />
against her, the child would be much more traumatized than it is in this scene.<br />
R.R.: So is this a way that Lene helps her daughter through the war?<br />
H.S.-B.: Yes.<br />
R.R.: That was my interpretation.<br />
H.S.-B.: It was my idea that I would have reacted that way. Well, I think it is a typical<br />
male reaction to say that she should fight and scream because maybe men want to see<br />
that. Maybe rape is also made for that. I know from critics that they usually think that<br />
women have to scream, and cry, and show themselves as really weak.<br />
R.R.: I understood Lene‟s answer to Anna as an ironic critique or on how post-war<br />
German society expected German women who had been raped to be silent about the<br />
rapes. This is emphasized by the next line <strong>of</strong> the fairy tale where Lene says, “Mein<br />
Schatz, das träumte mir nur” [“My dear, it was only a dream” (Sanders-Brahms, Film-<br />
Erzählung 96)]. What do you think <strong>of</strong> this interpretation?<br />
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