Book premiere ATMEN / LAUSCHEN

The two texts contained in this book, körper als praxis (premiered at the Theater Erfurt) and ATMEN/LAUSCHEN (premiered at the Bayreuth Festival), critically examine two heroic narratives: Joan of Arc and Tristan and Isolde. Through these different characters, Hendrik Arns approaches the themes of the body, intimacy and conviction. He uses fragments from various sources on these narratives to develop a network of self-reflection, historical material and pop-cultural context. Different voices thus form an ambivalent picture of the contemporary discussion about a critical practice of desire – and whisper of pain, redemption and new beginnings.


Hendrik Arns (born 1996, Lohr am Main) studied at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music and the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts, performance art at Central Saint Martins in London, and fine arts at the Städelschule and the Beaux-Arts de Paris. His works have been shown at the Bayreuth Festival, the Berlin Festival, the Museum of Applied Arts in Frankfurt, the Theater Erfurt and the Theater der Welt festival, among others. Hendrik has worked for the Berlin State Opera, the Teatro Colón and the Gran Teatre del Liceu, and his first book, Endurance Poem die4me, was published at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2024.


Emily Adler will be the host.


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