Munich. At first there were only a few, tentative laugh. But gradually the audience trust in Munich Schauspielhaus. And so was the violently applauded premiere of the latest piece of Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek to be an entertaining evening. Only one wondered a little anxious: Can we laugh, when negotiating on the stage of the process to the so absurdly horrible series of murders of the “National Socialist underground” (NSU)? If one because laughter does not get stuck in the throat?
There have been several attempts to dramatize, the murderous machinations of brown trio Mundlos / Böhnhardt / Zschäpe. Next door in the Residenz Theater Munich, Frankfurt, Karlsruhe and Cologne there were world premieres. But Jelinek’s “The Silent Girl” to the process so far so eloquently silent main culprit Beate Zschäpe is so far the most prominent attempt to take possession of the substance.
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But the scandal did not come. No one left the room during the performance, as director Johan Simons had feared. He had staged the distributed on eight wheels text as a kind of staged reading and effectively enriched with music. On the sparsely decorated stage is set pieces found from one devised by the perpetrators perverse society game they had “Pogromly” baptized in accordance with the well-known “Monopoly”.
Jelinek had the piece assembled from witness statements and media and autopsy reports, interspersed with her dressed in absurd puns thoughts about the circumstances that led to a half-century after the Holocaust again brutal terrorist could prosper from the right. That the NSU-process, the murders can see the determination of margins as theater of the absurd that you can about all the lose his faith, because if you had one – the victims and their families brings the little
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