Schwestern im Geiste ("Sisters in Spirit") is a musical written in German language by Peter Lund (lyrics), with music by Thomas Zaufke and choreography by Neva Howard. The musical was co-produced by the University of Arts Berlin and the Neukölln Opera. The issue of emancipation is told from the perspective of three young women in contemporary Berlin on the one hand and by three pastors daughters who live during the Victorian era in England on the other. Synopsis The musical parallels the restricted lives of the Bronte girls with those of three women of today. The 18-year-old Berlin pupils Milly and Aydin are close to graduating from high school. However the two young women do not seem to have anything else in common: Milly tries to enjoy life to the fullest, and the visit of techno parties, the use of designer drugs and noncommittal sex are an expression of her personal freedom and her seemingly self-determined life. The possibilities that would give her the degree she is ignoring. Aydin, however, feared not being able to leave high school, and a marriage with her cousin from Bursa is arranged, but she does not even know him. While Aydin wants to make her own decisions about her life, she believes her father's attempts to help her are more likely to find a good man than if she were to seek offers on her own. The two very different settings of the two students repeatedly provoke violent arguments and criticism of each other's way of life, conversations her teacher Lotte Birkner does not tolerate in the classroom, because she is annoyed by feminist debates. She tries to focus the interest of the pupils on the lesson: the literary work of the three Brontë sisters. The novels and letters left by the Victorian-era English pastor's daughters Charlotte, Anne and Emily Brontë make them pioneers of emancipation. Cut off from the rest of the world, they write about the limited role of women prescribed by civil society and their visions of how it could be better. To be accepted by publishers, the Brontë sisters have to give themselves male pseudonyms. After their release the books are hotly debated by the British public, because of the progressive representation of women's fates, and also their own brother Branwell, who tried himself as a writer as well, is shocked when he recognizes the ambitious attempts of his sisters.