I had no idea what was going on. Or very little. No more than most people. So you can-t make me feel guilty.
Brunhilde Pomsel-s life spanned the twentieth century. She struggled to make ends meet as a secretary in Berlin during the 1930s, her many employers including a Jewish insurance broker, the German Broadcasting Corporation and, eventually, Joseph Goebbels. Christopher Hampton-s play is based on the testimony she gave when she finally broke her silence to a group of Austrian filmmakers, shortly before she died in 2016.
Maggie Smith, alone on stage, plays Brunhilde Pomsel.
Christopher Hampton-s play is drawn from the testimony Pomsel gave when she finally broke her silence shortly before she died to a group of Austrian filmmakers, and from their documentary A German Life (Christian Kr-nes, Olaf M-ller, Roland Schrotthofer and Florian Weigensamer, produced by Blackbox Film & Media Productions).
