Marburg
We are all different, yet we are all good just the way we are. This message is conveyed in the book COMES THE RHINO by Heinz Janisch, in which a large gray rhinoceros wishes to be as light, small, and agile as the bird resting on its back. But neither of them can escape their skin and body, and that's a good thing, because everyone has their own wonderful qualities. The rhinoceros is needed – as a refuge, as a mountain. The bird is needed – as a cheerful companion, as a snowflake. Like every animal, we each have our own unique abilities and characteristics. Are you rather majestic and grand like a lion? Or quick and clever like a tiny mouse? Casual and long like a giraffe? Or quiet and sly like an owl? For all people aged 3 and up who want to discover what animal is within them and how beautiful it is to be different.
One day, real estate agent Eleonore Garazzo realizes that she is actually a cat. This thought—no, this deep feeling of certainty—comes over her when she observes such an animal specimen through her window one day. Financially secure and single, she decides to turn her back on her previous life and from now on be a cat. She has a cat suit tailored for herself and begins to gradually shed her human behavior. The outside world reacts with irritation, while the psychologist Dr. Wildbruch, with whom Eleonore repeatedly discusses her self-chosen transformation, is fascinated. As Eleonore’s senses and thinking become more and more feline, and her life unfolds between grooming her fur, lapping up milk, and hunting other small animals, her perception of the world also increasingly changes. Eleonore is a cat—cat is Eleonore. Eleonore’s withdrawal and transformation into an animal is a radical act of retreat from social coexistence, a rejection of rules and norms, and an individual act of liberation. But what does it mean when a person withdraws from social participation—what is given up, what is gained? And is such a step even conceivable? For everyone aged 14 and up who wants to join Eleonore in searching for what it means to be a cat, and who wants to confront the pressing questions of social coexistence through it.
