Every mother's nightmare suddenly comes true: One afternoon Katja brings her little son Rocco to her German-Kurdish husband Nuri's office. When she returns in the evening, she has to learn that both of them are dead; a nail bomb placed in front of the office has killed them. Out of nowhere, Katja's world lies in ruins. Just before the attack, she had seen a young woman at the scene, leaving her bicycle, packed with a black container, by a lamppost. A lead, but the police don't pursue it, focusing instead on Nuri's past and investigating the red-light district. It's her own fault - subliminally, that's what the widow is told throughout. But then, as chance would have it, suspicion finally falls on the neo-Nazi couple André and Edda Möller, which gives Katja hope and makes her believe in a just outcome to the trial. But the trial takes a completely different course: while the Möllers are initially clearly identified as the perpetrators by solid evidence and their right-wing extremist views are proven, their defence lawyer succeeds in a perfidious strategy to undermine all the facts and evidence in such a way that the couple is finally released. Humiliated and horrified, Katja decides to take the law into her own hands.
The revenge drama Aus dem Nichts (Out of Nowhere) by German film director and writer Fatih Akin was not created out of thin air, of course, but against the backdrop of the trials of the so-called National Socialist Underground (NSU), which are being pursued around the world. The right-wing extremist and xenophobic terrorists Uwe Mundlos, Uwe Böhnhardt and Beate Zschäpe murdered ten people, carried out attempted murders, robberies and three bomb attacks. The NSU only became known in November 2011, when Mundlos and Böhnhardt were found dead in a burnt-out mobile home and Zschäpe sent confession videos and set fire to her Zwickau apartment. Until then, police had largely ruled out right-wing extremist backgrounds to the crimes, groping in the dark for years, searching for the perpetrators in the traumatized victims' personal environment or even turning the victims into perpetrators.
From Nowhere shows, from the point of view of the bereaved, the pain of loss and the endless grief, shows the growing doubts and the swelling anger in the face of sky-scraping mistakes and injustices of investigating and judicial authorities. Fatih Akin has turned it into an international award-winning feature film starring Diane Kruger, a film that draws the audience into an emotional and moral conflict of sheer ancient force, which also honours the victims of the NSU and is intended to shake them up. The stage adaptation and dramatisation of the film, directed by Miraz Bezar, takes up these points, brings the subject into the light of the stage and brings it very close to our eyes. Elfriede Jelinek notes: We wouldn't recognize our own hand if someone else held it up in front of us, but no one does, how would they come to our hand?
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