Literature
Julia Turns Brilliant White
An unemployed actress accepts a supposedly harmless role in a retro commercial, until role, campaign and private life begin to run into one another - transplanted firmly to Germany and into the absurd world of a 1960s washing-powder campaign. Above all, one motif remains: in the end, it is no longer the product but the actress herself who becomes the "proof" of the advertising message.
[DEVIATION]
I am an actress.
I say that in the present tense, although strictly speaking it has been a claim rather than a fact for the past three years.
An actress acts. I, on the other hand, waited.
I waited for phone calls, auditions, callbacks after auditions, callbacks after callbacks, and occasionally for unemployment benefit. In between, I provided the voice of a washing machine in an educational film, played a woman with "diffuse upper-abdominal discomfort" in a hospital series, and once spent four seconds standing out of focus behind a well-known Tatort detective while he ordered a coffee.
My
