SPLEEN - Charles Baudelaire: Gedichte in Prosa

In the organizer's words:

SPLEEN - Charles Baudelaire: Poems in prose

"Who is there among us who has not, in his ambitious hours, dreamed of the miracle of a poetic prose that would be musical without rhythm and without rhyme, flexible and idiosyncratic enough to adapt itself to the lyrical stirrings of the soul, the undulations of reverie, the tremors of consciousness?
It is mainly life in the giant cities, the confusion of their countless relationships, that gives rise to this agonizing ideal."
Charles Baudelaire: Preface to The Spleen of Paris, 1869.

The production is based on Charles Baudelaire's late work, his poems in prose The Spleen of Paris. Dense miniatures, scenes often compressed into a few lines or seemingly fleeting trains of thought evoke the era of the "setting of the romantic sun". They reflect fragments of failed utopias in the face of political restoration in the previous century: an astonishingly contemporary panopticon.

The sometimes darkly bestial, sometimes cheerfully melancholy atmosphere of Baudelaire's cosmos plays with people on the threshold of modernity: between apathetic greed for life and eroticized longing for death, between yearning for infinity and brutal irrelevance, mostly succinct in the tragic, always subtle in the comic.

The open style of play in this production - that of the players with figures and musical instruments on stage, as well as with the text material, spoken by children and young people - aims for a kaleidoscopic view of the audience. A magic of its own is created in the imagination between actors, material and audience, a sequence of images that counterpoints Baudelaire's view and seeks to open it up to a contemporary perception.

Director: Hendrik Mannes
Play & set: Michael Vogel
Live music: Charlotte Wilde
Voices: Jördis Barth, Julka Finger, Luana Goller, Lotta Hillert, Merlin Lando Dweezil Ben Müller, Luis Neuschäfer, Vincent Sudau ,

Price information:

Advance booking (online and at advance booking offices) per person EUR 8.20 (incl. advance booking fees) Box office per person EUR 9.50 Evening program Advance booking (online and at advance booking offices) per person EUR 19.70 (incl. advance booking fees) reduced EUR 14.20 (incl. advance booking fees) Box office per person EUR 20.50 reduced EUR 15.50