In the organizer's words:

With LA STRADA in winter, the festival is expanding its artistic profile with a new winter format. The aim is to make it possible to experience the programmatic diversity and special signature of LA STRADA in the cold season too - in a setting that enables proximity, concentration and direct encounters.

"The Circle of Nature"

A poetic, humorous and thought-provoking one-man-one-tree show about our relationship with nature.
Peter Trabner takes Hölderlin's fragment "The Death of Empedocles" as his starting point and combines it with improvisation, physical play and surprising moments.
The result is an immediate theatrical experience that tells of cycles, responsibility and a special relationship between humans and trees.

"The Circle of Nature" is a unique mixture of performance, classic spoken word, storytelling and street theater and a lot of improvised show. The stage character, Peter Trabner, rehearses his personal Empedocles over and over again, sometimes in dialog with the olive tree he brought with him, his best friend.

The story: Empedocles lived around 2,500 years ago in Sicily, where he studied nature. He named the "four elements doctrine" - fire, earth, water and air.

According to legend, he threw himself into Mount Etna, rose into the sky as a silver cloud and "distributed" himself globally and for all time, in a homeopathic dose, so to speak. Empedocles is in everything and everywhere, just like plastic in the world's oceans or exhaust fumes in the air today.

In the summer of 1797, Friedrich Hölderlin took up this legend, but failed to write "The Death of Empedocles". Hölderlin's drama forms the basis of the production, a brilliant one-man-one-tree show that is rousing, clear-sighted, humorous and absurd in equal measure.

LA STRADA and Trabner's fans can also look forward to four performances of The Life of Diogenes.

We look forward to opening a new chapter of LA STRADA together with you.
We look forward to Peter Trabner lending his special artistic signature to this opening.
We are looking forward to the THEATERKONTOR studio - a space that creates proximity, enables concentration and focuses on the encounter between audience and artist.

But above all, we are looking forward to welcoming you in winter!

There is a nominal fee of €5 per ticket for booking. This fee is exclusively for reliable seat reservations and gives you and us planning security: you have a guaranteed seat and we can organize the room capacity responsibly.

As usual, the actual payment is only made after the performance - directly into the artist's hat. Just like you know it from LA STRADA!