Auf dem Kopf gehen - Ein Therapieversuch nach Georg Büchner

In the organizer's words:

"Lenz walked through the mountains on the 20th." This is how Georg Büchner's famous novella "Lenz" begins. Büchner takes up the real-life case of the poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, who underwent a kind of "therapy" with the priest Oberlin in the seclusion of a mountain village in order to cure his delusions, manic episodes and seizures. However, the therapy does not seem to work. Lenz experienced a rollercoaster ride of extreme mental states and increasingly drifted into madness.

Today, over 150 years after the novel was published, mental illness seems to be omnipresent. Where can we find support today in dealing with a crisis-ridden everyday life? Are the causes of loneliness, exhaustion and the compulsion to optimize perhaps behind the supposedly "normal"? And could walking on our heads together help us to actively tackle the contradictions of the present?

The play developed by the young Leipzig theater collective Sämtliche Gewerke uses Büchner's novella to examine what it means to be crazy, what utopian opportunities this state might offer, and who actually determines what is considered normal and what is not.

The actors are: Johanna Franke & Pit Prager

Concept & text: Sämtliche Gewerke Music/dramaturgy: Ada Meret Helene Brack Stage/costumes: Teresa Heiß Co-direction/production: Jakob Spiegler Director: Jan Moritz Müller

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The production is supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Leipzig, the Studentenwerk Leipzig and the StuRa of the HMT Leipzig.

Price information:

08 EUR = no coal ticket 12 EUR = normal price 15 EUR = subsidized ticket, funding for "no coal" ticket