Charlotte Salomon - born in Berlin in 1917, emigrated to southern France in 1939, murdered in Auschwitz in 1943 - left behind an extraordinary body of work: Life? or Theatre?. In images and texts of timeless, distinctive power, Charlotte Salomon stages the life story of a young woman in Berlin during the 1920s and 1930s, who goes into exile after the Night of Broken Glass. She tells of the increasing persecution of the Jews, of love and family relationships that are anything but simple, often unsentimental and self-ironic, even where it becomes truly unbearable. Elements from painting, literature, film, and music are playfully interwoven in this cycle created in French exile between 1940 and 1942. Astrid Schmetterling showcases an extraordinary life and how Charlotte Salomon, in her bold blending of different genres, found a visual language that uniquely expressed her life between various identities and places, as a Jewish woman in exile. "What remains for us is only her work - complex, full of life, and wonderfully unique.".