Rules for Life

Rules for Life

.Unless your profession calls for it, you should not read literature before midday.

Unless your profession calls for it, you should not make music before midday.

Unless your profession calls for it, you should not take a walk on weekdays, particularly before midday.

You should not devour delicacies before midday.

You should not purchase cut flowers except on Saturdays, or for festive occasions, or as gifts.

As a rule, you should not don an extravagant item of clothing for the first time on an everyday occasion.

You should not play parlor games with children on weekdays.

You should not begin a fresh loaf of bread before the old one has been eaten.

You should not visit graves, galleries, or people, unless moved to do so by a personal need.

Before taking actions or decisions of importance, you should always consider whether you would do the same a second time around.

You should avoid wearing conspicuous or valuable jewelry in everyday life.

As an adult among adults, you should avoid familiar forms of address, as these are deleterious to hitherto good relations.

You should keep in your vocabulary a reserve of words that you never use thoughtlessly or conventionally.

If you have a pedagogic conscience then avoid being the guest of families.

Isenburg, 17 June 1928 B.P.

Dora Edinger (Hrsg’in) Bertha Pappenheim. Leben und Schriften. Frankfurt am Main. 1965, S.143/144

La Manifestation

Thursday, 15 December 2016, 10:00

The art happening “La Manifestation” unfolded on the streets of downtown Frankfurt in order to put the Fourteen Rules of Life, penned in 1928 by the multi-talented Jewish social reformer and political activist Bertha Pappenheim (1859–1936), back in the public eye. It took the form of a protest march, beginning at the Eisernen Steg then leading via the Römer, Hauptwache, Roßmarkt, and Goethestraße to the city’s Opera House.

Concept: Agathe Chion, Elianna Renner, Rebekka Voß
In cooperation with Daniela Vollhardt, Kellertheater Frankfurt, antagon theaterAKTion

Production Assistant: Julie Grothgar

Cast:
Anja Becker
Doris Enders
Gabriele Giersiepen
Yasmin Laute
Karen Remi
Iris Reinhardt-Hassenzahl
Stella Schimmele
Kathleen Witt
Daniela Vollhardt
Vladislava Zvonka