TORSTEN

World premiere of a theater text by Lothar Trolle

Is it childhood? Is it the drugs? Or is it simply the desire to be someone like Ulenspiegel? The latest play by renowned playwright Lothar Trolle is an adventurous, absurd and tragicomic on-the-road account of East Germany's most famous impostor - Torsten Schmitt. One female player and two male players relive everything for Torsten: the Dakotas in the garden near Dessau, grandpa's forbidden Nazi attic, the GDR special children's home in Plau am See, the escape, the Foreign Legion, the drugs, the alter ego Dr. Becker from the Foreign Office, the MTV promoter in Budapest, the organizer of the NATO summit in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the fall into the dustbin. Even fans of pathologization don't miss out, as the Ulenspiegel syndrome unfolds in front of the audience as if they were empathic therapists. A post-dramatic biopic, staged by Theater AGGREGATE including sounds by Bernd Jestram.

"Fluttering, fluffy, cheerful play with identities" (Neues Deutschland)

"Fast-paced, intense, full of allusions."(Mitteldeutsche Zeitung)

Acting: Astrid Kohlhoff, David Jeker, Stefan Ebeling
Director: Silvio Beck
Music: Bernd Jestram
Costumes: Sascha Antonia von Oettingen

A production by Theater AGGREGATE.

The project was funded by the State of Saxony-Anhalt and the City of Halle. The transcription of the text was supported by the Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt and the Kloster Bergesche Stiftung.