In the organizer's words:

by Peter Handke // Directed by Claudia Bauer

"I have just written a play by the skin of my teeth. It's called 'Publikumsbeschimpfung' and it's my first and my last. I would now like to have it performed and perhaps see it performed elsewhere."

Peter Handke's wish came true 60 years ago, in the summer of 1966, in Frankfurt am Main at the Theater am Turm, directed by Claus Peymann, and Handke became famous virtually overnight. The spoken play without a plot, without stage design and without props makes language and the theatrical agreement itself the subject: Handke examines how reality can be regained in the theater through language. The players are the observers, the audience becomes the center of attention. By undermining the theater, Handke creates a new theater.

"These boards do not mean the world. They belong to the world. These boards are there for us to stand on. This is no other world than yours."

For this anniversary production of the play, which is based on the sound elements of beat music, director Claudia Bauer is reviving her long-standing collaboration with composer Peer Baierlein. After her two successful adaptations of Luis Buñuel films at Schauspiel Frankfurt, Claudia Bauer is now entering the literary cosmos of Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke for a declaration of love to the theater.