Lenz

In the organizer's words:

after Georg Büchner / from 14 years

"Can't you hear anything? Can't you hear the terrible voice that screams around the entire horizon and is usually called silence?"

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz and his steadily deteriorating mental state are the subject of this posthumously published story by Georg Büchner. On his hikes through mountain landscapes, in conversations about art and God, reality and delusion become increasingly blurred. Nightmares plague the poet and he is repeatedly overcome by anxiety. Constantly searching for something to hold on to, searching for meaning in a world that is becoming increasingly alien to him, there are also brief moments of hope and happiness in his memories of childhood and in his encounters with nature.
In "Lenz", director and performer Rebekka Bangerter finds a description of a contemporary social state of mind in which everyone, like Lenz himself, is searching for meaning in a noisy world in which everything is true and not true at the same time. With performative and installative elements, this production of Georg Büchner's classic offers no answers, but sets itself the task of reclaiming complexities - without being discouraged by them.

Lenz' s performance uses strobe lighting and artificial fog. We also warn against high frequencies and loud music.

We would like to point out that there is a trigger warning for this production, which you can read here.