The Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov  sits disillusioned in his apartment in 1938 Moscow. His plays have been removed from the schedules by the Soviet authorities, and the publication of his novels has been banned. Then the Vakhtangov Theater commissions him to adapt Miguel Cervantes ' DON QUIXOTE for the stage. Alonso Quijano sits just as dejectedly in his village of La Mancha, spending his time reading chivalric novels and losing himself in their ideals. He names himself Don Quixote and sets out to pursue the stories from his books. His companion and armor-bearer, Sancho Panza, dubs him the "Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance." Traveling on an old nag and a donkey, they aim to "restore to the world the irretrievably lost justice," free a supposed princess, and fight giants in the form of windmills.

Don Quixote

Werkstattbühne

Felix Krull is a fool for everyone. Charming, sophisticated, and with ease. Early on, he discovered his love of acting, which paved the way for him, paving the way for him in ways one would never have thought possible. Ultimately, he looks back on a life full of deception and pretense, loneliness, and questions about his own identity.

Confessions of the imposter Felix Krull

The often painful vitality of female embodiments takes center stage. Author Katja Brunner doesn't mince words. Her play is a wild verbal tirade centered on the female body: bodies of all ages, every shape. Including the female body that knows how to stage and position itself, that gives birth, ages—or empties itself through vomiting. Then, for example, the chorus of bulimics speaks, listing all the things they vomit on: fatherland, motherland, EU, fathers and their fathers, vomiting for you, against us, a little for me.

The Hand is a lonely hunter

Theater Bonn Opera House

It's summer, Isa has escaped from a psychiatric hospital and is now on foot on a kind of road trip through the country. "The stars are wandering, and I'm wandering too," says Isa. She is 14 and so much more than that. You can find the whole world in her, if you want to. Lightness and heaviness, presence and memory, as well as death and life. "Isabel, ruler of the universe, the planets and everything. If I want the sun to stand still, the sun will stand still," she claims, and the further you trudge barefoot through the world with her, the more unequivocal this statement becomes. Isa has her own way of thinking, her own reality with its own rules—or none at all. She relentlessly exposes herself to life in all its facets. She approaches every encounter on this journey with such unconditional intensity, mixed with naivety, curiosity, courage, strength, and determination, that you stand there in amazement. Sometimes you want to warn, and sometimes you just want to witness unconditionally. A bargeman, a writer, a child, a dead hunter... and somewhere in between, Tschick and Maik. Almost by chance, Herrendorf's two novels , TSCHICK and PICTURES OF YOUR GREAT LOVE, intertwine at this point, yet remain separate works. The girl from the garbage dump is now the protagonist, and we experience the encounter with the two boys, who are on their way to Wallachia in a Lada, from her perspective.

Johanna Salz

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