Woyzeck-Schafott 2024

200 years after the historical events surrounding the execution of Johann Christian Woyzeck in Leipzig, we are continuing to develop our artistic approach to the last public execution on the Leipzig market square, taking a look at the current situation of prisoners worldwide.

For the joint further development of our reconstruction of the Woyzeck Shafot, which was created as part of the Büchner Festival 2017, we were able to win over the scenographers Shahrzad Rahmani from Berlin and Lisa Schiller-Witzmann from Leipzig.

Using letters and reports from prisons under various systems of injustice from the past and present, they have succeeded in designing the 6x7x4 meter cube in the center of Leipzig as an impressive external and internal experiential space that gives victims of arbitrariness and injustice their own voice.

FromAugust 25 to September 4, the Woyzeck-Schafott 2024 will be present on Leipzig's market square.

Opening: Sun, August 25 | 6 pm

Lisa Schiller-Witzmann is a freelance stage and costume designer who has worked in Germany, Austria, Poland, Latvia, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Her artistic practice includes works for drama, dance and music theater, exhibition scenographies, set designs for films and art installations in public spaces. Her focus is on working with independent ensembles, production houses, authors and cultural institutions such as museums and academia. Her artistic partners include the Schaubühne Lindenfels in Leipzig since 2010, the peira Leipzig/Vienna collective since 2021 and the missingdots collective in Dresden since 2024.

Shahrzad Rahmani is a freelance stage and costume designer and scenographer and part of the artist collective Guerilla Architects in Berlin. In the winter semester 2023/24 she held the guest professorship "Bertolt Brecht" at the Center of Competence for Theatre at the University of Leipzig. Her artistic work focuses on interdisciplinary spaces and installations in theater, urban and performance contexts. She works closely with choreographer Modjgan Hashemian and directors Marie Bues, Keng Sen Ong and Niko Eleftheriadis as well as the artist collective Talking Straight. She works at venues such as Radialsystem, Hebbel am Ufer, Maxim Gorki Theater, Uferstudios, Tischlerei der deutschen Oper, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Staatstheater Hannover, Theater Rampe in Stuttgart and Schauspielhaus Wien.

Artistic direction: Shahrzad Rahmani, René Reinhardt, Lisa Schiller-Witzmann
Scenography: Shahrzad Rahmani, Lisa Schiller-Witzmann
Production management: Jennifer Krebs, Hannes Raetz
Research: Elisa Liebscher
Graphics: Thomas Szabo
Construction: Robert Schiller
Technical direction: Benjamin Henkel

A production of the Schaubühne Lindenfels in cooperation with the Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig. In further cooperation with Amnesty International Leipzig. Supported by the City of Leipzig.
The residency as part of the project is supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. A residency at the Schaubühne Lindenfels as part of the Fonds Darstellende Künste's residency funding program in cooperation with flausen+. With the kind support of the Gedenkstätte Museum in der "Runden Ecke".

This event is part of our anniversary tour 94/24.