A German Life
A Crow’s Theatre Production
By Christopher Hampton
Drawn from the life and testimony of Brunhilde Pomsel
Starring Fiona Reid
Directed by Stewart Arnott
Canadian Premiere
Jan 12, 2027 - Feb 7, 2027
Studio Theatre
Complicity rarely announces itself.
From Tony- and Oscar-winning writer Christopher Hampton and based on the real-life testimony of Brunhilde Pomsel, secretary to Joseph Goebbels during Nazi Germany, A German Life traces one woman’s extraordinary life inside a regime built on propaganda and terror.
At the age of 103, Pomsel looks back and recounts her work, her choices, and her daily survival. Hampton’s adaptation examines the incremental slide – the quiet rationalizations and small concessions through which ordinary people become entangled in extraordinary evil.
A German Life is a meditation on memory, guilt, and the fragile line between complicity and innocence. The play stars Canadian theatre legend Fiona Reid, whose work has been seen across the country at Stratford, Shaw, and beyond, including on film in My Big Fat Greek Wedding and The Time Traveler’s Wife, and on Broadway in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.