Trilogie des Wiedersehens

Trilogie des Wiedersehens

Deutsch
Cast

6F / 11M

In the rooms of an art society a group of people (doctors, industrialists, artists etc) has gathered to preview the show "capitalist realism". They meet in front of the pictures, have a conversation, drift apart, reconvene in different constellations. The art becomes secondary - the conversations revolve more and more obsessively around their own mental states. The announced "realism" is more and more undermined. In an elevated and masterfully composed language everything that's being said, (and even more, how it is being said) becomes more and more crazy. When the show is about to be banned, the powerlessness of the intellectual elite is suddenly revealed...With Triologie des Wiedersehens Botho Strauss' achieved his breakthrough (also on an international level). The play was nominated for the Muehlhein Drama Award, and was voted play of the year by the critics. Just like a person can 'notice' something when perusing a painting, the characters notice themselves: they meet themselves again. Strauss dissects these self-encounters into many small takes... moments when the persons perceive their existence, their life as an absurd scandal, and when they - in all their pain, their longing for happiness, their desire to resolve their fragmented existence in context - become almost unbearable to themselves," (Frankfurter Rundschau)

World premiere
18.05.1977 Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg (Director. Dieter Giesing)Dutch

Selected translations
English
Egyptian
French
Hungarian
Romanian

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