It's about the rise and fall of a warrior: at this year's Lausitz Festival, Berlin radio presenter and theater maker Jürgen Kuttner is devoting himself to the Roman general Coriolanus. The title of the production is "It pisses me off. You croppies! - Forster citizens rehearse Coriolan", according to the organizers in Cottbus. The play will be performed in the Forster Hof in Forst (Lausitz), which was once home to the municipal theater. There will also be a chorus of local citizens on stage.
Kuttner, born in East Berlin in 1958, was a presenter at the RBB radio station Fritz for many years and is a busy man of the theater. In Berlin, he delighted audiences for years with his "Videoschnipsel" evening at the Volksbühne. This time, too, he uses a lot of existing material, including texts by William Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Günter Grass and Heiner Müller. He collected material about the general Corolianus from antiquity to the present day and put it together like a kaleidoscope, it was said.
Festival takes place for the sixth time
At the Lausitz Festival, artists from all over the world will transform the region into a large stage from August 24 to September 14. In addition to dance, theater and concerts and a philosophical discussion format, the festival also offers staged readings. The events take place in often unusual venues - including old factories, churches and a former mine. Some of the plays have been specially staged for the festival.
The Lausitz Festival is taking place for the sixth time, this year under the motto "unsbewusst". According to the organizers, it is intended to focus on the "we" and the community.
One performance already sold out
The festival will open with a world premiere in the oldest still functioning briquette factory in the world in Domsdorf, Brandenburg, which is now a technical monument. The text of the play "Sonnet Factory" is based on sonnets by the poet William Shakespeare. "A particularly magical place awaits us," said Austrian author Michael Sturminger, who directed the play.
"Othello/The Strangers", also by Shakespeare, is celebrating a comeback. One performance of it is already sold out - the first this year, according to reports.
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