Hanna & Heinz

Based on the story of Hanna Mothes, a young Norwegian woman who married a German soldier during World War II.

After the war, like thousands of other Norwegian women in the same situation, she was forcibly sent out of the country and stripped of her Norwegian citizenship. Based on this true story, NIE has created a performance filled with music, humor and vitality.

This is a story about survival, love, loss of identity and hope. It's about how human identity is affected when you can't visit the geographical area to which that identity is linked. It's also a story about fighting for justice, and about how much it's worth enduring for that one great love.

There is no country in Europe that punished its war brides as severely as Norway. The story of Hanna and Heinz is the story of a woman who never gave up because she was born in Norway and therefore believed she had the right to return home. It took almost 60 years. The love of her life had died, and you could travel as you wished without a passport throughout Europe before she could get her Norwegian passport back.

The performance is supported by Arts Council Norway