Die Nacht kurz vor den Wäldern

In the organizer's words:

The night just before the woods
by Bernard-Marie Koltès, translated from the French by Simon Werle

"Poverty creates humility, humility creates diligence, diligence creates wealth, wealth creates arrogance, arrogance creates war, war creates poverty, poverty creates humility, humility creates...", this perpetual cycle of suffering and misery, of power and abuse of power, leaves its mark. Traces on people, like the stranger condemned to loneliness in Bernard-Marie Koltè's drama, who is never seen anywhere except on the streets.

In a bizarre and disturbing world, Emel Aydogdu and Burak Hoffmann sketch the thoughts of a desperate man who has nothing and no one left but the idea he has to tell, his idea of...

Bernard-Marie Koltès is considered one of the most important French playwrights. His most powerful tool is language, in which supposedly simple everyday words and thoughts exude an enormous magic.

Play: Burak Hoffmann, Director: Emel Aydoğdu
Performance rights: Verlag der Autoren, Frankfurt am Main