Woyzeck torments of madness from the trenches – THE WORLD

From PTSD, the “post-traumatic stress syndrome,” was far from the speech, as Georg Büchner shortly before death at age 24 ” Woyzeck “left, one of the most important fragments of the history of theater. Who it lists, it invents anyway always like new – Leander Haussmann, fortunately, recently back from the movies in the theater, looking at the history of the oppressed creature, which is practically spineless murderer, the psychological profile of the drilled soldiers. As if he would suffer PTSD – kill this man-machine and probably can not help

In lockstep march.! – Almost three dozen extras (! Well as extras), uniformed in commercial military camouflage, turning round and round on the revolving stage to maintain peer pressure consistently on Woyzeck, this pretty baseless individual. But he has only the mistress, the beautiful Marie, the clear looser takes life as the father of their child and share with your best friend Margret quite quite like to take on the role as an erotic flash girl in the company. A few sparkling earrings as a gift almost rich. The child is her as strange as Woyzeck, it bothers more; and when she is unfaithful with the chic drum major and the jealous Woyzeck has been beaten up and humiliated by the Uniform, it is the poor devil who was her lover, murdered.

Sex and death are one – in the last physical union penetrates a naked man with a knife. Where he got it at this moment – not so important. One is always like the others …

Complex and compelling idea

So hard to Leander Haussmann also does with this material, so simple, but complex and compelling is in the (apparently not really end rehearsed and therefore still quite unfinished) performance at the Berliner Ensemble, the basic idea, which he slipped over the Ballad of the Sad murderer – this production is some of the eternal mystery in Büchner’s classic bulky seriously on the track. Also thanks to PTSD – all the voices that Woyzeck hears transcendent and subliminally, all the Albträumereien that plague him, the of the hero could be: Sagittarius Asch has come out of the war

For Haussmann takes back the privately constructed rather travails: by the doctor who experimented with pea chronic food on soldiers object (here’s pea soup from the pot until the butt is bleeding!); the captain, Woyzeck first -Music very silly barbiert here with Mozart’s “Figaro” into the ground before the turns to love longing Tutu girl in black.

batting flies Woyzeck to the ears

Haussmann-screen inventions are often (and as almost always) greatly overwrought, sometimes even really stupid – the summoning of the fairground about is completely pointless; to the soldiers-extras playing with inflatable animals between the legs on the revolving stage carousel. As Woyzeck can tackle with much cotton candy for Marie against the wind machine – and all batting him flying around the ears

But the finale for example, is quite fabulous and. really terrific – the dream after the murder. The stage, previously empty, is now a field of flowers, Marie is still alive and wearing wedding dress; Grandma told tale. Woyzeck is still naked in this anti-world – and is the murder back to our fantasy

Chronic weakness of Peymann ensembles

Long stretches Haussmann’s new work very view worth; coarser and sassy and rabid than usual BE-food is in each case. Yet this “Woyzeck” but has absolutely no suitable pace; there really needs to be nachgeprobt much. Once again, the chronic weakness of Claus Peymanns ensemble also shows again – actually only Peter Miklusz in the title role meets the requirements of the Capital Theatre. But tourists diet is this “Woyzeck” at least not – maybe there’s a new chance at the “Theater for contemporaries”

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