Petra Janina Schultz was born in Berlin. She completed her acting training in 1996 with a parity examination at the Theaterwerkstatt Charlottenburg, Berlin. In 2000 she completed her voice training at the German Actors' Academy in Munich and has been part of the ensemble of the Shakespeare Company Bremen since 2001.
Shohre is in her early thirties, divorced and a car enthusiast. She works as a taxi driver in the Iranian city of Kermanshah. While male colleagues and passengers sometimes lack the necessary respect, women are proud to take a seat next to a woman at the wheel. On her routes, Shohre repeatedly has surprising encounters and exchanges of words with passengers - even with the supposed man of her dreams.
A work about self-determination, tradition and breaks with tradition and the path of a self-confident woman in a male-dominated world.
Translated from the Persian by Isabel Stümpel
Read by Petra Janina Schultz