BRASCH / EIDINGER / KRANZ: Das Unvereinbare in ein Gedicht

In the organizer's words:

Reading with Lars Eidinger and George Kranz

"I love you can be emphasized in three different ways. How do you say the sentence without emphasis?"

For Thomas Brasch, love is an attitude that refuses to be pinned down. An attitude that fearfully and longingly exposes its dreams to reality and always places the possible within the horizon of the impossible. His poetic passion hopes and despairs, trusts and deceives, praises and destroys.

Lars Eidinger reads his poems and George Kranz interprets them on the drums.

Thomas Brasch, born in 1945 in Westow, grew up in the GDR. In 1964 he began studying journalism in Leipzig. Forcibly exmatriculated in 1965 due to criticism of the system. 1966 First theater work at the Volksbühne Berlin. 1967-68 Studied dramaturgy at the Babelsberg Academy of Film and Television. Worked as a freelance writer from 1970, first radio plays and plays, including "Lovely Rita" (1975). After moving to West Germany in 1976, Brasch continued to publish plays as well as volumes of prose and poetry, including "Vor den Vätern sterben die Söhne" (1977), "Kargo. 32nd attempt to get out of your own skin on a sinking ship" (1977) or "Mädchenmörder Brunke" (1999). He also translated Shakespeare and Chekhov and worked as a director, including on "Engel aus Eisen" (1981) and "Der Passagier - Welcome to Germany" (1988). Brasch died in Berlin in 2001.

George Kranz, born in 1956, was the drummer in the Berlin band Zeitgeist from 1980-83, working in parallel with Ulla Meinecke. Kranz achieved international fame in 1983 with his solo single "Trommeltanz" or "Din Daa Daa". Further solo albums followed, including "Move it!" (1989) and "Sticky Druisin'" (1995). In addition, music for film and television. Since "Alles Plastik" (directed by Wolfgang Kolneder, 1980), regular work at the Grips Theater - as a musician in "Linie 1" (directed by Wolfgang Kolneder, 1986) and as a lyricist, composer and producer. He has also worked as an actor, including in the film "Magic Sticks" (1987), for which he also wrote the title song of the same name, and under the direction of Thomas Brasch in "Der Passagier - Welcome to Germany" (1988). Since then he has written theater and film scores and worked with Third World, The Roots, the Ying Yang Twins, the Phenix Horns and many others. K

CONCEPT AND REALIZATION: Lars Eidinger

STAGE: Alena Georgi

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Lisa-Marie Hobusch