Andre Eisermann & Jakob Vinje

In the organizer's words:

"Goethe Werther Eisermann"
Spoken Word Performance - Reloaded
It all began in Wetzlar in 1999: for the reopening of the Lotte-Haus, the parental home of Charlotte Buff, to whom Goethe set a literary monument in Werther, actor André Eisermann was asked to read from "The Sorrows of Young Werther". Together with the pianist and composer Jakob Vinje, Eisermann developed a spoken word performance of Goethe's Sturm und Drang masterpiece: Eisermann plunges into Werther's words and thoughts and his unrequited feelings towards Lotte over Vinje's delicate compositions. Eisermann's interpretation brings Goethe's words to life and makes one thing clear: love, and the suffering of it, is a timeless affair.
Originally planned as a one-off event, the performance by the multi-award-winning Kaspar Hauser actor became a hit with audiences: Eisermann and Vinje have performed their program more than 800 times in recent years and published an audio book with BMG Wort.