Woyzeck

In the organizer's words:

After Georg Büchner
Music and lyrics by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan
Text version by Ann-Christin Rommen and Wolfgang Wiens
Concept by Robert Wilson

"Society does not suffer from a lack of values, but from existing constraints."
Rosa Luxemburg

Franz Woyzeck is a driven man. As a soldier, he obeys the captain's orders and is available for the doctor's experiments in exchange for money to feed his girlfriend Marie and their child. Humiliated and pushed around by those around him, he finds "all work under the sun" and the world as a whole hostile. He becomes estranged from his young family. The soldier Woyzeck falls into madness and becomes a perpetrator, deciding to direct his violence against Marie.

Tom Waits' blues and jazz-tinged soundtrack to Georg Büchner's drama fragment is melancholic, dark and driving - and tells of the dizziness of looking into the abyss and a life without solidarity. In a militarized world in which both male and female bodies are the foreign property of the state and patriarchy, it becomes clear that Marie's fatal fate is neither tragic nor an isolated case.