BROKEN LENZ

or the failure of the complexity of the world

The world is on fire. But there is a man fighting and there is a man running - he wants to understand, intervene and change and in the end he fails because of his own demands. What now? Withdraw into the private sphere? Into nature? Into yourself?

Felix Banholzer 's new production is a poetic and angry performance based on Georg Büchner. "broken lenz" tells the story of a sensitive and intelligent man who despairs of the world and increasingly loses himself in delusion. Following the tragic story of Lenz, motifs from Büchner's life are negotiated and supplemented by personal experiences and questions.

What can we do when fascism and right-wing tendencies prevail everywhere, when neoliberal thoughts permeate the private sphere and video snippets and posts decide political elections? How can an individual behave? How to confront the complexity of events - give up or fight? Because before Lenz fled into nature - there was anger. A will to change. A sense of justice!

"broken len(s)z" ... and so he lived?

Note: Strobe effects are used in the performance. Trigger warning: Suicide

Direction, dramaturgy Felix Banholzer
Stage and costume design Silvie Naunheim
Performance Till Alexander Lang
Performance, video Mirko Borscht
Performance, music Ann Weller / Cheap Wedding
Assistant director: Monica Krauskopf
Stage and costume assistant: Joni Lützen Hollingsworth