Wolf's Lair

Germany, 1942. Traudl Junge was a young woman with dreams of becoming a ballerina. Instead, at 22 years old she became Adolf Hitler's personal secretary. She served him for two and a half years, until the final days of World War II when Nazi Germany fell. Traudl Junge was one of the few survivors to emerge from the Berlin Bunker where Hitler and many members of his inner circle ended their own lives. For many years Traudl Junge claimed she had been blind to the genocidal activities being carried out around her, it was not until the late 1960s that she began to confront her past. Over the next 35 years that confrontation became an increasingly painful process; an exhausting attempt to understand herself and her motivations as a young woman. She died in February 2002, shortly after the publication of her memoir.

Wolf’s Lair is an examination of the ghosts of one woman's conscience; a woman who served a mass murderer and yet does not fit into the polarized territory of the hero's and the villains. This play, rather than re-enacting her autobiography, shines a light on the pain and confusion she suffered - not at the time of the Nazi genocide, but when as an adult she finally started questioning and accepting her role in what happened around her.

Devised and Created by Sophie Roberts and Willem Wassenaar

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