IBSEN: GESPENSTER

In the organizer's words:

In Ibsen's play, Osvald asks his mother for euthanasia. Are people allowed to determine the end of their own lives? Markus&Markus also examine this existential question.

In Ibsen's drama GESPENSTER, Osvald asks his mother to help him die. She doubts. And with her, societies all over the world still doubt whether there is a fundamental right to self-determined death. The collective Markus&Markus met its Osvald, 81-year-old Margot, on April 1 and accompanied her with a camera during her last days, while she was organizing her things, visiting her last doctors, saying goodbye and finally on her way to Switzerland. There, where a few organizations have been providing euthanasia for years on the thin line left to them by the law. On May 22, they attended Margot's funeral. IBSEN: GESPENSTER documents this special encounter. The play is a celebration of life, a dinner for one, at which the lady at the table has already followed her deceased friends. Only the performers of Markus&Markus are left on stage. A controversial discourse clashes with a drama whose protagonist is already dead. IBSEN: GESPENSTER is a play about dying and at the same time an elixir of survival, because: "As long as people talk about me and my story is told, I'm not dead."

Price information:

Regular: 18,- € Reduced: 13,- € Soli-price: 25,- € Leipzig-Pass: 9,- €