faust

One person who is helping to shape these upheavals is Faust, the eternally dissatisfied, restless man who has cursed patience. He is revered by some as a bringer of progress, hated by others as a criminal and colonizer. Always thinking about the next project, always searching for satisfaction he can never find, he is a symptomatic figure of this time.


Lorenzo Leander Haas's production questions the topicality of the material and its relevance in describing our present. It seeks parallels with contemporary Faustian figures and explores the paths a contemporary Faust might take.


Is a startup garage comparable to the "narrow Gothic room" in which Faust's story begins, and doesn't the dam construction site perhaps resemble the headquarters of a gigantic tech corporation in Silicon Valley? This is how we travel from heaven through the world to hell. Who is Faust? And above all, how do we behave toward him?



(IN GERMAN)