A terrible secret surrounds the Silesian climatic health resort of Görbersdorf. Every year, a young man dies in the nearby forest. On the eve of the First World War, a group of men meet here for a cure. While the patients, immersed in intellectual conversations, enjoy the mountain air, it is said that the Empusen - female spirits of revenge - are already looking for their next victim. Against this eerie backdrop, young Mieczysław Wojnicz is searching for his identity and sense of belonging: his native Poland has been wiped off the map and he hides his body behind a suit and tie. No one is allowed to know who he is.

Empusion

Theater Basel

«I am young, rich, and educated; and I am unhappy, neurotic, and alone.» These words open ‹Mars›, the cult book of the early 1980s. Raised in affluence, Zurich native Fritz Angst feels cheated out of life and raised to death by the bourgeois coldness of his world. Shortly before losing his battle with cancer in 1976, he wrote a passionate tirade under the name Fritz Zorn: his illness was not a personal fate, but a reflection of social decay. The book became a scandalous point of reference for the angry Swiss youth of the 1980s.

Anne Haug

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Sep 28, 2025 - Apr 26, 2026

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