Wie sie im Vergnügungspark ihre Toten bestatten (Lesung von Veit Sprenger)

In the organizer's words:

How they bury their dead in the amusement park

Reading by Veit Sprenger

In the era of short messages on social media, it seems inevitable to synchronize literary output with the reading habits of readers. Berlin-based author and performance artist Veit Sprenger has done just that. Absurd. Abysmal. Exceptionally short and sweet. Not so long ago he was a guest at Kampnagel with his collective Showcase Beat Le Mot, and now he will be reading from his collection of stories "Wie sie im Vergnügungspark ihre Toten bestatten". "Sprenger's collection of stories exudes the magic that I feel in the best evenings of Showcase Beat Le Mot. [...] It is an invitation to a world that is only just next door to ours and yet operates according to its own, completely autonomous, fabulous, genuinely poetic laws. Everything doubles to the point of recognizability." (nachtkritik.de)

About Veit Sprenger

Veit Sprenger is a theater maker and author. He studied music in Hanover, medicine in Frankfurt am Main and applied theater studies in Giessen. He is a founding member of the theater group Showcase Beat Le Mot, with which he has been developing plays, performances, art actions and music videos since 1998. To date, he has produced more than forty plays, which have been performed in 16 countries. He was a member of the artistic management team for the artgenda festival for young art in the Baltic Sea region and of the selection and prize juries for the theater festivals unart, Impulse and Westwind, among others. He has taught at universities in Berlin, Hamburg, Rostock, Gießen, Zurich, Cologne, Oslo, Beijing, Athens/Ohio, New York, Stuttgart and Bern.