“ENDE GELÄNDE”

Description:

A story about a not fully lived life, prematurely ended – based on the notes and diaries of Jewish children from the area of ​​the former Warsaw ghetto. A journey through a non-existent city.

When a German child causes problems and the parents get upset, they say: Jetzt ist Ende im Gelände (Jetzt ist Schluss damit) – it’s over! Ende Gelände also means “end of the territory”, “limitation of the territory”. They say it when something definitely ends: game, fun – or something deadly serious.

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“Man is born for a long, long life. And when he dies ahead of time where is his not lived life at the end? His joy and his suffering? His thoughts, which, due to lack of time, had failed to think through, his deeds, which he did not have time to fulfill? Where is everything going? Where?”

(“Dybbuk”, Sz. An-ski)