He haunts Tolstoy's text like a ghost: Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France and bearer of a very special project. Like a collective obsession, visitors to Moscow's salons follow every piece of news about the Corsican's private and public life. Admiration and rejection, fascination and fear characterize the Russian upper class, which fears more than just Bonaparte's troops. Because like an invasion, the self-proclaimed world conqueror also brings the values ​​of the French Revolution with him: freedom, equality, fraternity and the abolition of a class-based society in favor of a rule of law. Even in the Frenchman's devastating defeat, the Russian victors pay him tribute, although nothing will change for a long time in the rigid salons of the late Tsarist Empire.

War and Peace

Staatstheater Darmstadt

The "White Horse Inn" is a place of longing for all kinds of different characters. The waiter Leopold is trying to win the favor of his boss, the landlady Josepha Vogelhuber, who has her eye on her regular customer, lawyer Dr. Siedler. He, in turn, is interested in Ottilie, who is staying at the "White Horse Inn" with her father, the Berlin knitwear manufacturer Giesecke. Sigismund Sülzheimer, the son of Giesecke's competitor, has also arrived. He is to marry Ottilie in order to put an end to the legal dispute between the two companies. Sigismund, however, prefers to try to win the favor of the charming Klärchen, the daughter of poor Professor Hinzelmann.

Im weissen Rössl

In the end, there is no turning back for the regicide, as he himself realizes. After spilling so much blood, he can only continue to wade through it. Once you leave human civilization, you stay outside it. Crossing the border is irreversible, until you perish.

Macbeth

Terrible things are happening in the clinic rooms of Doctor Prentice's private psychiatric clinic. An interview with the future secretary, Geraldine, takes on questionable aspects when she is asked to undress so that her qualifications can be checked. His wife Mrs. Prentice suddenly appears out of nowhere, urgently in need of a drink after a secret rendezvous with the bellboy Nick Beckett from the station hotel. He now wants to blackmail her with explicit photos. Meanwhile, a commissioner and a state inspector appear, who have their own questions in the spreading chaos. A daring chase ensues in which neither the right item of clothing nor the right gender can lead to the answer. In the end, it all ends with Winston Churchill's penis.

Jörg Zirnstein

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