Der eigene Tod

In the organizer's words:

by Péter Nádas
German by Heinrich Eisterer
Directed by András Dömötör

The award-winning Hungarian author Péter Nádas describes in an almost protocol-like, precise and poetic way what the title describes: his own death. He only just survives a heart attack. In a state of limbo between this world and the hereafter, he encounters "the other" within himself. Completely alienated from himself, he experiences the extinction of thought - and its reinstatement. Only connection and continuity to everything that has gone before seem lost. "Your former experiences float with you in the universe of timelessness as shadows of planets." In this concise essay, one of the greatest authors of the 20th century gives a unique account of a condition whose effects have had a lasting impact on his life to date, but also on his work as a writer. What also lends this highly personal text a tremendous topicality: Nádas describes in a frighteningly true-to-life way how long and stubbornly he ignores the symptoms, how he pushes away the pain and weakness with tremendous effort, literally to his death. And further back, to the beginning, the moment of birth, 1942, Budapest.

With: Markus John, Matti Krause and Jan Thümer

Director: András Dömötör
Stage: Julia Oschatz
Costumes: Jana Sophia Schweers
Sound: Krisztián Vranik / Krizso
Light: Björn Salzer
Dramaturgy: Ralf Fiedler

Further information: Der eigene Tod | Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg