Merle Zurawski, I LOVE HORSES

In the organizer's words:

Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas is a colorful character whose ambivalence still provokes controversy today. Kohlhaas, the "good citizen", elevates himself to the role of avenging angel to punish a provincial bigwig who has undermined the law by means of corruption and rope teams. This Kohlhaas, the "most horrible" man, devastates cities and murders bystanders because the "system" denies him, the victim, the protection under which he carries out his otherwise so "peaceful trade" and without which he ends up with the "savages in the wasteland". Merle Zurawski implants the themes and conflicts, narratives and aesthetics of her own generation into the KOHLHAAS matrix and brings them into play with the present in a multi-layered, unsentimental way. The proverbial love of horses takes up a central motif of the narrative with an expanded perspective. Merle Zurawski samples the polyphony of the sexes, revolts, emancipation and solidarity, which are nonetheless up for discussion in the same competitive arena, via Kleist's world, which is defined by masculinity and functions as a course of status, power, money, terror and the preservation of order.