War drama: Premiere of Leander Haussmann’s “Woyzeck” in Berlin – STAR

D he man is at the end. Humiliated by comrades and superiors. Betrayed by the woman. Abused by the doctor for dubious medical tests. Then listen to “Woyzeck” one day these voices. Visions and nightmares looking him home. Film and theater director Leander Haussmann (“Sun Alley”, “Hai-Alarm Müggelsee”) staged Georg Büchner’s drama fragment “Woyzeck” as an anti-war piece with a tragic ending.

Haussmann leaves at the acclaimed premiere the Berliner Ensemble on Saturday night soldiers march in camouflage uniforms and machine guns at the ready. It shows what make war, blindness, misery and isolation from the people. Idea in a furious Peter Miklusz makes Woyzeck as desperate, pursued by soldiers delusion, nobody can help and wants

In the mind of the spectator, the theater images mix with the war images, which can be seen every night on the TV news -., and with the reports on the trauma of their use in crisis areas Bundeswehr or U.S. soldiers

The stories of the props

How to live man, wherein one find meaning in socially and politically difficult times? – Asking Haussmann in its true sometimes striking, yet powerful staging. The stage was designed by the director himself – long the characters move in empty black space in the (art) fog their senses confused

Later individual props telling the whole story: The stroller of. illegitimate little son of Woyzeck and his beloved but unfaithful Marie (Joanna Griebel), the front of which Woyzeck how about tents of the soldiers, in front of an impenetrable forest.

In a dreamlike fairground scene float and ride the soldiers from Woyzecks force in slow motion on balloon animals such as dolphins, zebra and lion. They act dissolved and happy for the first time. Since the fool (Traute Hoess) from the story has already made a parable about the meaning of life.

“Woyzeck” production also at the Deutsches Theater Berlin

In the end, Woyzeck crashes in delusion naked on his Marie – in a desperate and deadly act of love. Haussmann bathes the stage in blood-red light. His production of the last remaining fragment of Buchner’s work from the year 1836/37 lives of their powerful images. Woyzeck victims and perpetrators at the same time. The right piece at the right time.

Also at the Deutsches Theater Berlin can be seen in this season a “Woyzeck” production (Premiere October 3). “Sebastian Hartmann developed with an actress, an actor and a musician, who will relate together all the parts of the piece, a private access to this mysterious story,” the theater announced. On the platforms Benjamin Lillie and Katrin Wichmann be available.