LARS EIDINGER - LIEST UND SINGT BERTOLT BRECHTS „HAUSPOSTILLE“

In the organizer's words:

Lars Eidinger is considered one of the most important actors of his generation. On 23.05.2026 he comes to Stuttgart with Bertolt Brecht's "Hauspostille". Congenially accompanied by the musician and composer Hans Jörn Brandenburg on piano, harpsichord and harmonium, Lars Eidinger sings and reads from Brecht's collection of poems. Eidinger and Brandenburg take a deep breath of wild Brecht and bring his poetry and "water corpse poetry" to the stage as a dazzling synthesis of the arts. They feast on the eerie beauty of the morbid, which has already served as a model for pop culture icons such as David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Nick Cave.

Tickets for "Hauspostille" with Lars Eidinger and Hans Jörn Brandenburg are available now at myticket.de and at all known advance booking offices.

"Perhaps Eidinger and Brecht would have had an intimate male friendship during their lifetime. Both have the ambition not just to touch or entertain their audience, but to inspire them to think, to change." Leipziger Volkszeitung

"The actor of the moment, someone you talk about, someone you never forget once you've seen him." DIE ZEIT

"Brecht, who saw music very much as an art form, will like it that way. Not as pleasing, but as dangerous." Märkische Allgemeine

"Great art!" BZ

"And all of this calmly at the microphone in a constant light, with sparing gestures and an even, almost fatalistic tone of voice that confidently avoids all false, i.e. all overly emphatic or mannered tongues." Leipziger Volkszeitung

"Hans Jörn Brandenburg accompanies this alternately on piano, harmonium or synthesizer. Weill, Eisler and Bach shimmer like particles, postulating the concentrated economy of "less is more"." Leipziger Volkszeitung

"Heartbreakingly beautiful." Bonner-General Anzeiger

Lars Eidinger became known to a wide audience with his performance in Maren Ade's "Alle Anderen". He was dubbed "The It Boy of his generation". Since then, he has been involved in a number of national and international film and television productions. These include "Yesterday's Flowers", "Persian Hours", "Babylon Berlin", "25 km/h", "Clouds of Sils Maria", "White Noise", "Irma Vep" and most recently "Dying" and "The Light". His portrayal of a psychopathic serial killer in the Kiel crime series "Borowski und der stille Gast" brought him a great deal of attention. He has been a permanent member of the Schaubühne Berlin ensemble since 1999. His portrayal of the title characters Hamlet and Richard III in William Shakespeare's plays of the same name made him a well-known theater actor worldwide. The New York Times wrote: "He might be the greatest Shakespearean actor you've never heard of."

"The House Postille appeals to the reader's emotions and intellect. It is recommended reading in times of raw natural forces and in hours of wealth, the consciousness of flesh and pretension. It is to be sung under the attack of harsh discords. Its motto is: "In gratitude for the sun shining on them, things cast shadows." These are the words of the instructions for using "Bertolt Brecht's Hauspostille", which the playwright wrote between 1916 and 1925 and repeatedly added to over the course of his life. The title Hauspostille is a parodic allusion to contemporary pious collections of sermons.

Lars Eidinger: "Change the world, it needs it" is the title of "The Measure" by Bertolt Brecht and then "Who are you?". So there seems to be a direct connection between the question of our identity and the possibility of changing the world. If we step out of the most narcissistic moment, recognize and reveal ourselves in the reflection, we can overcome the alienation from ourselves and from our counterparts and emerge as changed people."

Hans Jörn Brandenburg, who has worked for Frank Castorf and George Tabori, among others, has been the musical director of all of Robert Wilson's German-language premieres and has worked with Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Herbert Grönemeyer and CocoRosie. With the band Felix De Luxe, he landed a hit in 1984 with the song "Taxi to Paris".