In the organizer's words:
by Georges Perec and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
translated from the French by Eugen Helmlé
Director: Anita Vulesica
The French author Georges Perec is one of the most important and innovative writers of the 20th century. Each of his novels follows a different formal concept - almost all of them enjoy cult status. In 1968, he was commissioned by the SR/WDR to write a radio play in which a machine is given the task of analyzing a poem. Perec, whose father died in the war against the Germans and whose mother was presumably murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau, applies techniques of information theory and programming language to what is probably the most famous German nature poem: "Wandrers Nachtlied" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In Perec's audio piece, it is not people but circuits that communicate. What comes to light, however, is not only the analytical functioning of artificial intelligence - surprisingly, the linguistic de- and reconstruction of the poem also reveals the functioning of poetry. And thus precisely the difference between artificial and human intelligence. The abstract analysis of the machine conjures up ever new meaning and nonsense, ever new semantic beauties and absurdities from the Goethean eight-liner in a strictly formal order.
The award-winning director Anita Vulesica, who is making her debut at the Deutsches SchauSpielHaus with "The Machine", goes one step further in her production: in her work, the artificial intelligence of the machine searches for the essence of human poetry, working to save people from themselves and an all-dominating instrumental reason.
Invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2025
With: Yorck Dippe, Sandra Gerling, Moritz Grove, Daniel Hoevels, Christoph Jöde and Camill Jammal
Director: Anita Vulesica
Stage: Henrike Engel
Costumes: Janina Brinkmann
Music: Camill Jammal
Bodywork & choreography: Mirjam Klebel
Video: Phillip Hohenwarter
Lighting: Susanne Ressin
Dramaturgy: Christian Tschirner
Further information: The Machine or: Above All Summits is Peace | Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg
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