Der Sandmann

In the organizer's words:

after E.T.A. Hoffmann / Director: Lilja Rupprecht

Longing, love, fear and delusion shake hands in "The Sandman". The young student Nathanael writes to his friend: "Something terrible has entered my life!" His encounter with the weather-glass dealer Coppola brings back dark memories of his childhood. As a young boy, he was convinced that the "terrible sandman" had killed his father. In his opinion, this terrifying figure, who allegedly sprinkled sand in the eyes of children who did not want to sleep "so that they would jump out of their heads in blood", was the advocate Coppelius. With the figure of Coppola, the traumatic experiences of Nathanael's childhood creep into his present. Delusion and fiction overlap and Nathanael increasingly loses his footing. All the more so when a "false" love enters his life...