My Swan Lake
by Christoph Marthaler / with texts by Elfriede Jelinek / Direction: Christoph Marthaler / Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg
Over the past few seasons, Christoph Marthaler has developed two unusual evenings at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, based on poems, letters and sketches by authors who, for various reasons, chose to withdraw completely into rooms (Emily Dickinson) and towers (Friedrich Hölderlin) in order to create great literature from the smallest of spaces. Following »Die Sorglosschlafenden, die Frischaufgeblühten« and »Im Namen der Brise«, the focus now lies on rather unknown parts of the work of the Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, who, from her homes in Vienna and Munich, dissects chaotic world affairs articulating them in her unmistakable style.