Lotta is moving

Sometimes, as a parent with children, you want to do everything right — and yet you always do something wrong. This is also the case in Astrid Lindgren's story “Lotta is moving,” one of her many who, in her “rebellion,” questions the entrenched hierarchies between children and adults: Just like Pippi Longstocking, Michel and also Ronja the Robber's Daughter.

One morning, Lotta wakes up from a terrible nightmare. Dream: Her siblings have hewn their beloved cuddly toy. But much worse than the dream is that the parents do not take them seriously. Lotta is angry and disappointed, so she makes a decision: She is going to move into Aunt Berg's attic. She will live there in her own way and never come back again. She sets up her new home with energy and joy. Because she is finally the determiner. What works wonderfully during the day collapses at night: She lacks the security of her parents. So she must decide... go home and make up or stay alone for the night.

In “Lotta is moving,” Astrid Lindgren asks the question: What does it take for parents and children to take each other seriously and for a good life together to be possible? How can a dispute become reconciliation again? With lots of music and sensitivity, theatre director Thomas Sutter restages this story for our time — with a close eye for children's needs and interpersonal arrangements.