In the organizer's words:

With ATMEN/LAUSCHEN, a collection of the plays körper als praxis and ATMEN/LAUSCHEN, Hendrik Arns enters the field of tension between pain and desire and searches for identity in a culture of constant self-recognition.

The two texts contained in this book, körper als praxis (first performed at Theater Erfurt) and ATMEN/LAUSCHEN (first performed at the Bayreuth Festival), critically examine two heroine narratives: Jeanne d'Arc and Tristan and Isolde. Hendrik Arns uses these different characters to approach the themes of the body, intimacy and conviction. He makes fragmentary use of various sources for these narratives in order to create a web of self-reflection, historical material and pop-cultural context. Different voices thus form an ambivalent picture of the contemporary discussion about a critical practice of desire - and whisper of pain, redemption and awakening.

Hendrik Arns (*1996, Lohr am Main) studied at the HfM "Hanns Eisler" and the HfS "Ernst Busch", Performance Art at Central Saint Martins in London and Fine Arts at the Städelschule and the Beaux-Arts de Paris. His works have been shown at the Bayreuth Festival, the Berlin Festival, the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, the Theater Erfurt and the Theater der Welt festival, among others. Hendrik has worked for the Berlin State Opera, the Teatro Colón and the Gran Teatre del Liceu and his first book, Endurance Poem die4me, was published by Passagen Verlag Vienna for the Frankfurt Book Fair 2024.

Emily Adler takes over the moderation.