Sturmhöhe

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play

based on the novel by Emily Brontë
In German language

"Wuthering Heights" is considered one of the most radical works of world literature. With its abysmal descriptions of the human psyche, of love, violence and pain, the text still unfolds a powerful and stubborn force today. The Earnshaws' home is situated on a remote hill in the northern English moors. When the orphan Heathcliff is taken into the family by his father, their relationship shifts. Son Hindley feels inferior to Heathcliff and takes his resentment out on him in the form of violence. Daughter Cathy, on the other hand, develops a deep bond with her new stepbrother. When Cathy nevertheless marries the wealthy and well-educated Linton from the neighboring estate, Heathcliff leaves the area in humiliation. A few years later, he returns as a made man and begins his two-generation campaign of revenge against all those who have humiliated him. Following Brecht's "The Good Man of Szechwan" and Schiller's "Cabal and Love", Charlotte Sprenger's third production for the Altes Kino is dedicated to Franklin's "Wuthering Heights" and its fascinating author Emily Brontë: "It is as if Emily Brontë could tear to pieces everything by which we recognize man and fill the unrecognizable with such a spirit of life that it transcends reality." (Virginia Woolf) This content has been machine translated.