Eine runde Sache

In the organizer's words:

based on the novel by Tomer Gardi / stage version and director: Noam Brusilovsky / guest performance Schauspiel Stuttgart

World premiere Heidelberger Stückemarkt

Old Hall

"A writer is someone who has difficulties with language": Tomer Gardi tells a rogue's tale, cheeky, with linguistic capers in "Broken German", an artificial language with unusual spelling, idiosyncratic sentence structure and not flawless High German. Here, language is played with in a comical and slapstick-like manner, breaking with the conventions of storytelling and questioning the possibility of understanding: how can it succeed when words, thoughts, people and even dogs suddenly meet in completely different cultural contexts?

This is the beginning of an absurd odyssey in which Tomer's paths become ever more legendary - a hellish journey through German culture, together with Goethe's Erlkönig and a German shepherd dog called Rex, who meet on a hunt that goes rather wrong. This dark fairy tale, characterized by violence and turned on its head, is reflected in the story of the 19th century Indonesian painter Raden Saleh, who travels from Java to Europe. What remains of old Tomer, Rex and Raden in the end? "A Round Thing" retells the everyday and shows how radical appropriation of language can become rebellion.

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