Ferien vom Ich

What if you could simply leave yourself at the door? At Dr. Rosenstock's peculiar health spa, that's exactly what happens: guests check in their names, their worries, their entire identities at reception, emerging as numbered guests seeking 'holidays from themselves.' When an enthusiastic American millionaire arrives, convinced this revolutionary cure will restore his jaded constitution, the gentle equilibrium of the resort descends into delightful chaos. Mix in a few romantic entanglements, a dash of family tragedy, and any number of mistaken identities, and you have a sparkling confection of early 20th-century German comedy. Paul Keller understood something essential about the modern condition: that sometimes we need permission to step outside the selves we've become. His characters flee their lives seeking renewal, only to discover that you cannot escape who you are no matter how creative the therapy. Yet along the way, they find something perhaps more valuable: the absurd tenderness of human connection, the comedy hidden in our most desperate attempts at reinvention.