Leonce und Lena

In the organizer's words:

A turning point: The old king is leaving, and the hereditary prince is to take over. But Leonce, a brilliant mind, a bored cynic, an acrobat of words and an equally ingenious and merciless inventor of his own little realities, initially refuses to succeed him. He doesn't want that much of the world. He has seen through the games of power, the self-dramatizations of the privileged disgust him. Everything seems unmasked and yet a blind spot remains: he, Leonce, also casts himself as dictator in the lives of others, deprives them of their reality and compassionlessly stages what they are supposed to experience and he wants to experience. So what follows the unmasking of the mechanisms of power, late feudalism, industrialization, late capitalism, which have ruined a world and bled it dry? "My life yawns at me like a white sheet of paper that I am supposed to write on, but I can't get a letter out." Outside, a world is shattering that spares only a few the struggle for sheer survival. The elites' heads are haunted by the promising fantasies and world concepts of a generation that cries out for total freedom and in the end knows only its own: to make the world as it pleases. Leonce becomes king, marries Princess Lena. A new era begins, but... "... Tomorrow, in all comfort and tranquility, we'll start all the fun all over again.... Well, Lena, do you see now how we have our pockets full, full of dolls and toys?" Eventually the game is over. But reality goes on, and so does hunger. Even when no one is looking. ____________ Germany 1836, in the pre-march of a revolution: Georg Büchner completes "Leonce and Lena." The Cotta publishing house has announced a prize for the "best one- or two-act comedy in prose or verse". Büchner writes three acts, which on closer inspection are not all that funny, exceeds the submission deadline and presents a caustic critique of his time, in which people voluntarily become puppets in an absurd game of power. Who the masterminds are and - so it runs through the players with an abrupt shock - whether they exist at all, remains open. This content has been machine translated.

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12.00 - 22.00€