ELEANOR’S STORY

An American Girl In Hitler’s Germany

Adaptation by Ingrid Garner

Based on Eleanor Ramrath Garner’s best-selling memoir, this 16X award-winning adaptation (written and performed by her granddaughter, Ingrid Garner) details Eleanor’s youth as an American caught in WWII Berlin.

During the Great Depression, 9-year-old Eleanor’s family moves from the U.S. to Germany in pursuit of work, but when war breaks out as they are crossing the Atlantic, return to America becomes impossible. While desperate for Allied victory, the family faces bombings, Gestapo threats, the final battle for Berlin, and the perils of Russian occupation.

Eighty years later, her granddaughter embodies her ancestors onstage in this coming-of-age odyssey. In a dynamic performance, punctuated with humor and accompanied by cinematic sound and video, Ingrid delivers an account of war more timely than ever.