Virginia Woolf
and Vita Sackville-West
Love Letters
In 1922, the author Virginia Woolf met the writer and celebrated aristocrat Vita Sackville-West at a dinner party. This meeting was the beginning of a consuming passion and a deep friendship that inspired the literary works of both. It evolved into a relationship that defied the times in which these two women found each other and invented themselves, and explore love with their heads and their hearts. Their language gives freedom a space and flouted the conventions. Their letters are a dialogue of a rare intensity, full of tender irony and ardent intimacy. They are fragments of a love that combined intellect with sensuality, gave licence to wit and vulnerability. In the space between thoughts and emotions, life intensifies and becomes art.
Jasna Fritzi Bauer and Luise Wolfram read this ink and paper pas de deux that brings to life one of the great love stories of the 20th century with bravura, resurrecting two exceptional women right at the centre of their world and times, caught up in the small everyday things and their great love.
Luise Wolfram already landed her first role in a movie, Little Angel, at the age of seven. She was only fifteen years old when she appeared in the long-running TV crime series Polizeiruf 110 episode entitled Wandas letzter Gang. From 2010 to 2015, she was a member of the permanent cast of the Schaubühne Berlin theatre. Luise Wolfram not only works as a stage actress but has in parallel also always acted in films, such as the Russian period drama Mathilde and the German-Israeli co-production Kiss Me Before It Blows Up, and in television productions such as the second season of the successful series Charité or the internationally celebrated Sky-produced TV series Das Boot . She has also portrayed the police inspector Linda in the Bremen-based episodes of the long-running TV crime series Tatort since 2021.
Jasna Fritzi Bauer, who was born in 1989, studied drama at the renowned Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. She was a member of the ensemble of the Burgtheater in Vienna until 2015 and has also performed at the Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg-Platz. She has appeared in numerous film and TV productions, such as Broken Glass Park (2012), for example, for which she won the Max Ophüls Award for best young actress. Her performance in About A Girl also won her a Bavarian Film Award in the same category. She, too, can be seen on German TV in the Bremen-based episodes of the long-running TV crime series Tatort.
