WERTHER

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WERTHER
A theatrical frivolity by Johann Wolfgang Goethe with texts by Karoline von Günderrode

"The Sorrows of Young Werther" became a literary sensation throughout Europe in 1774 and made Goethe, who was only 25 years old, the star of the young Sturmers und Drängers overnight. Goethe originally wanted to adapt the material about Werther's unrequited love for Lotte as a stage play, but ultimately decided on the form of the epistolary novel. Director Elsa-Sophie Jach takes up Goethe's rejected idea and transfers Goethe's lovesick alter ego to the stage in her adaptation of Werther. "WERTHER. Ein theatralischer Leichtsinn" thereby expands Goethe's astonishingly modern, shimmering rush of emotion to include texts by one of Goethe's contemporaries: Karoline von Günderrode. Her idiosyncratic, melancholic and highly poetic poetry, which earned her the designation "Sappho of Romanticism," meets the emotional exuberance of Goethe's tragic anti-hero with its emancipatory radicalism.

Artistic direction

Production Elsa-Sophie Jach
Stage and costumes Aleksandra Pavlović
Composition and musical direction Max Kühn, Roman Sladek
Lighting Barbara Westernach
Dramaturgy Constanze Kargl

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from 8 € for students