Reineke Fuchs

"Reineke Fuchs, the rogue! Who abstained from the court for the sake of the much-committed outrage. So the evil conscience shunned light and day, the fox shunned the assembled lords. They all had to complain, he had offended them all". With his famous verse epic in 1830, Goethe drew the portrait of a manipulator without equal. Reineke is a seducer and deceiver, a master of self-dramatization and alternative facts. Charming and gallant, yet ice-coldly calculating, he knows how to set up social conditions for himself. Why do we so readily fall for this perpetrator, who stages himself as a victim, and are all too happy to trust the wrong voices? In search of justice in Goethe's verses, ensemble member Michael Fünfschilling brings some of the twelve songs of "Reineke" to the stage of the Unterhaus in a staged reading with music. The evening is directed by Lisa Muchow, assistant director at the D'haus.