Love is like a chemical reaction between unknown components. In his work ‹Wahlverwandtschaften›, Goethe conducts the following experiment: Charlotte and Eduard are a unit. Their bond is put to the test by the addition of Ottilie and the Captain. Eduard is attracted to Ottilie, Charlotte to the Captain. Director Leonie Böhm continues the experimental setup of the classic material and looks at the network of relationships from a contemporary perspective: in Goethe's language, Leonie Böhm asks how we deal with change in our relationships. And what the continuation of the community might look like. Leonie Böhm was recently awarded the Nestroy Theater Prize for her production of ‹Fräulein Else› and invited to the 2026 Berlin Theater Meeting. After ‹König Teiresias›, she is now working with the Basel company for the second time.

Elective Affinities

Theater Basel

When the HORA Theater was founded in Zurich in 1993, a Marthaler production ‹Murx den Europäer!› was premiering at the (Volks-)Bühne in Berlin. Coincidence? Or the famous law of meaningful synchronicity?

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For Adelina, born in Zurich, the daughter of Italian immigrants, there is no place in Switzerland. Inherited debts force her to abandon her apprenticeship. Single and with her young daughter Emma, she searches for a way out of the downward spiral. But the circumstances, a misogynistic and xenophobic society, prevent her from doing so. She finds herself in one awkward situation after another until a man who lovingly cares for her daughter takes her to Italy. However, Emma disappears without a trace, leading to a fateful encounter with the Red Brigades - and a realization.

Die Krume Brot

Murder case in the mental hospital! Already the second nurse has been murdered. The perpetrator, one of three physicists, claims to be Einstein. Another thinks he is Newton. To the third, Möbius, King Solomon appears. It soon becomes clear that they are all playing at something here. Möbius has discovered the world formula. He pretends to be crazy in order to keep his discovery, with which mankind could destroy itself, a secret. The other two are secret agents for East and West on a mission to get him on their side. But the genius Möbius, caught in a moral dilemma, chooses isolation. One decides for all - and becomes the pawn of the power interests of a mad-doctor who has long been pulling the strings in the background.

The Physicists

Gottlieb Biedermann, a hair tonic manufacturer, wants to see the good in people for once. Intoxicated by his own idealism, he offers hospitality to two strangers. Yet warnings about arsonists are everywhere: disguised as poor peddlers, they take up residence in the attics of law-abiding citizens – and reduce everything to rubble and ashes.

Biedermann and the Arsonists

«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.

Vera Flück

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