A play about what it is like to be invisible in today’s society. A woman sits in her empty East Berlin apartment of the last fifty years. This is where she lived with her husband and daughter. This is where she lost them both. Where she saw the wall come down. Where life changed again and again. And now a foreign inverstor has bought the building. She will leave. With nowhere to go.
A man sleeps on a bench by the sea. He too has nowhere to go. So he drifts from town to town, with the only hope to be somewhere warm, once winter arrives.
World premiere: 24 May 2025 – Staatstheater Meiningen, dir. Anna StiepaniThis is the seemingly well-known Germanic epic, filled with the old myth of the song of the Nibelungs and its Nordic counterpart the Edda. But old certainties and tales of heroes have begun to crumble.
Not only, Brynhild, the Valkyrie, is forced to free herself from old expectations and brutal intrigue. Sigurd, too, the dragon slayer, he does not fit the ancient idea of the hero anymore. Who decides who we are? Fate, destiny, the Gods, our families – or we ourselves? Together Brynhild and Sigurd write a new story: a story of love, a story of family, a tragedy, a thriller. A wild uprising against the roles laif out for us, against the decision-making of others. With all its bloody consequences.
World premiere: 7 July 2023 – Nibelungenfestspiele Worms, dir. Pınar Karabulut