Lars Eidinger liest, spielt und singt Bertolt Brechts »Hauspostille«

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Lars Eidinger, recitation and vocals - Hans-Jörn Brandenburg, piano, harpsichord and harmonium - on December 17, 2024 - Schauspielhaus, Großes Haus

Lars Eidinger has a special relationship with Bertolt Brecht. He has already played him in Joachim Lang's feature film "Brecht's Threepenny Film". At the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, he will now read, sing and act from his collection of poems "Hauspostille". Bertolt Brecht's "Hauspostille" is an allusion to pious collections of sermons: "Bittgänge", "Chroniken" and "kleine Tagzeiten der Abgestorbenen" - these are some of the chapter headings. The fallen are celebrated in the texts, the abysmal is dragged into the light, it is dark poetry about raw violence.

"Sick of the sun and completely eaten away by rain/ Stolen laurel in his tousled hair/ He has forgotten all his youth, only not his dreams/ Long the roof, never the sky that was above". The "Hauspostille" is punk. A wild Brecht works his way around the edges of the antisocial. He celebrates the cursed and drinks with the outlaws. His dark poetry feasts on the eerie beauty of the morbid - a role model for pop culture icons such as Iggy Pop, Nick Cave and Tim Burton. Seduced, drowned girls in "shallow, brown swampy ponds", murderous lust, horniness, greed and raw violence, in short everything abysmal and dirty that the well-behaved generation of parents shamefully hides behind white curtains, is dragged into the light without taboos. Hypocrisy is exposed with relish. As an actor, Lars Eidinger has a soft spot for characters who have something to hide. He takes a deep breath of wild Brecht and brings his poetry to the stage with the musical accompaniment of Hans Jörn Brandenburg as a radically sparkling Gesamtkunstwerk.

14 of the 50 poems are set to music. Hans-Jörn Brandenburg, who studied with Helmut Lachenmann in Hanover and later wrote stage music for Frank Castorf, George Tabori and Robert Wilson, among others, provides stylistically confident and creative accompaniment with the entire palette of tone colors of his instruments.