Quick Info
Developed by KGI – Büro für nicht übertragbare Angelegenheiten, Köln
In his last play, Thomas Bernhard used the story of a Jewish family in Vienna to examine the extent of anti-Semitism in 1988. The premiere at the Burgtheater became the biggest theater scandal after '45 and could only take place under police protection due to calls for a boycott, physical attacks and death threats. In KGI's interpretation of "Heldenplatz", the audience embarks on a search for traces of the scandal and of the anti-Semitism of today: what happens when we dare to look into the abyss of the past?
By means of VR glasses, the spectator:inside is transported into a nightmare of the unconscious that attempts to look behind the polished facades of the seemingly undamaged culture industry. A rapturous odyssey between VR and theater, guilt and the unconscious, past and present begins.
Funded by: Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen im Rahmen von NEUE WEGE in Zusammenarbeit mit dem NRW KULTURsekretariat.
Cast
- With
- Johnny Mhanna
- Dominik Meder
- Arthur Romanowski
- Maria Vogt
- Mike Vojnar
Staff
- Maria Vogt
- Simon Kubisch
- Dominik Meder
- Marcel Nascimento
- Sara Sabri
- Alexander Bauer
- Markus Wagner
- Ben Fischer
