DIE AUTORIN

In the organizer's words:

A perfomative essay on authorship and identity by Natalia Zaitseva

With an extraordinary evening between performance, media art and theater, the playwright Natalia Zaitseva, who lives in exile in Leipzig, presents new perspectives on history. She belongs to the young generation of Russian artists who see theater as a place for the free expression of opinion and aesthetic-artistic research. For her performative essay, she transfers her voice to the actress Verena Noll and provides a different perspective to that of the old white men. Because "the author is dead", wrote Roland Barthes. But "the author" feels surprisingly good. If the omniscient perspective of the "dead white men" belongs to the past (does it really?), a "partial perspective" promises a more objective and fairer vision of history. Embedded in a mixture of fragmentary compositions and graphic scores, Natalia Zaitseva reflects on authorship and identity.

The play was developed by the author as part of a scholarship at the Schaubühne Lindenfels, supported by the Martin Roth Initiative. This is a protection program for artists who are politically persecuted in their home country because they are committed to the freedom of art, democracy and human rights.

Text: Natalia Zaitseva
Performance: Verena Noll
With compositions by: Asya Ashman, Alexandra Novozhenova, Anna Versotskaya
Translation of the original English text into German: Marvin Neidhardt

An event as part of the flausen+fest der freien künste.

Price information:

Tickets at the Schaubühne, online and at all Reservix box offices: 15 / 9 (reduced) euros