Can we make fun of neo-Nazis? Elfriede Jelinek allowed. But Johan Simons, who has released her latest drama “The Silent Girl” at the Munich Chamber Play, the world premiere was Saturday evening, can not be too much funny. The audience seemed thrilled nevertheless, may also relieved that Simon has used only 42 of 224 pages: two hours without a break. This is truly exhausting. Why? Perhaps due to the static presentation
Jelinek loves trash and trivia, Nicolas Stemann has exhibits about in “The Contracts of the Businessman” the biting and malicious wit of the author, the betrayed wholesale and retail investors disclosed. The late multi-artist Christoph Schlingensief moved Jelinek speech engines with performance art. ., But there is also the choral Jelinek-variant, as here
background of “Silent Girl” is the NSU Process: The terror cell National Socialist Underground murdered 2000-2007 migrants. Media suspected perpetrators in the “Turkish Mafia”. These were German: After a bank robbery, 2011, Uwe Mundlos, so the reconstruction, first shot his buddy Uwe Böhnhardt, then himself, left is her friend Beate Tschäppe, the silence in the process. The process is still running.
virgin without without youth and home
If you look around the internet for extreme right-wing activities, will quickly find and is horrified. But Jelinek does not choose the simple access: The neo-Nazism monster rears its head. In any case, this is not their only idea. She’s like getting a bunch of them. “The Silent Girl” is a kind of fair, prophets, angels appear, it is about the salvation that promise religions, but also extremist movements. The Virgin and the myths that have grown up around it, it is often necessary, but can also be heroes of old legends like Siegfried or Hunding, the lone wolf and the members of a regulatory power, which is also a transition, a horde.
Following the original Jelinek has a reading list added: There are in the play many quotes from the Bible, Hesiod’s Theogony about the origin of the world and the gods play a role, the “Electra” of Euripides, and how often in Jelinek Heidegger. “The Virgin Without Youth / The little housewife without a house / truth and being, go here not together / that do not go together from” it says towards the end.
But “The Silent Girl” is also a courtroom Crime, as we daily experience it real or in TV series The Good Morning ritual, the assurance that all parties are present, the laborious investigation of apparent facts, the exhibition match of the representatives of different sides of justice, the most foolish statements for gruesome events. Killers are often loving sons and unobtrusive neighbors: “blown up in the air, not blown up the lawn. My son blew himself up in the air, you hear! “Says the angel.
Jelinek takes the judgments of the media on the grain that make many words, speculate, in view of suspects, not only in silence, but cases in her burqa. Who is here at all perpetrators, victims who? Testimony dissolve into air, which takes place here except comprehensive nebulization of facts? “I did not notice anything, the customer (…) says he meets his source, the gushes turbid, in a restaurant (…), it comes to Midsummer celebrations, football games to relevant fellowships, on a take, if you look, and if you look away, too, “says the beginning of the witness. Events, identities disappear …
Apocalyptic language thunderstorm
In the program there is a clever essay by writer and orientalist Navid Kermani about the similarities rooted in different cultures today’s anarchism. And an interview with Simon, who hopes that the audience will not leave the theater, frightened by the jumble of associative material. The piece itself is a reflection of the circumstances of which are. The broadsides, the Jelinek against “the Germans” fires, seemed Premiere visitors rather to amuse: Germany, the export power that has drawn its second “connection” 25 years after the fall of the price of a growing rabid underground, neo-Nazism flowers especially strongly in the former eastern territories of high unemployment. The NSU terrorists were born in Jena.
The ensemble (including Wiebke Puls, Annette Paulmann, Hans Kremer, Benny Claessens) has rehearsed the difficult text without clear role definitions dazzling, this sounds elegiac music with piano (Sachiko Hara), violin, synthesizer, a sound picture. Flash, livelier, clearer could the scenic idea of this drama thinking. But in Munich raging this weekend, the Oktoberfest, people can whoop it up, stagger boys in leather pants, bawl, sucks, the chaotic scene may suffice as a bodily illustration for this very literary-scale apocalyptic language thunderstorm
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(“The Press”, print edition, 29/09/2014)
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