3. Teil der Kriegstrilogie
Body, history, violence – three key concepts in Heiner Müller’s work, which is as multi-layered and marked by fractures as the life of the author himself. Born in 1929 in Saxony and inextricably connected to Berlin, he was censored, feared, embraced hesitantly and finally celebrated, and he presents us with challenges, only rarely without humour.
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KEY VISUAL Schlachten
Following Dantons Tod / Iphigenie (Danton’s Death / Iphigenia) and Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (Mother Courage and Her Children), this production is the conclusion of Oliver Frljić’s War Trilogy. In it he complements Philoktet with additional texts by Heiner Müller, Die Schlacht (The Battle) and Germania 3 Gespenster am Toten Mann (Ghosts at the Dead Man) in particular.
In his adaptation of Sophocles’ Philoctetes, Müller sets up his heroes to clash in a game about reason and violence, lies and political constraints. In a system whose inner logic allows its own means to undermine the well-postulated end, there can be no winner. In Die Schlacht, barbarism is intrinsic to the system. Five scenes from Nazi Germany form a panopticon of personal corruption and amoral excessiveness.
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Photo: Esra Rotthoff
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Participating artists
Marina Frenk
Tim Freudensprung
Vidina Popov
Mehmet Yılmaz
Oliver Frljić
Katrin Wolfermann
Simon Meienreis
