Ausverkauft | Die Leiden des jungen Werther

In the organizer's words:

There is hardly a more complex feeling than love - it can make you float on cloud nine, but it can also drive you mad. Or both at the same time. Young Werther has just left home when he meets Lotte. He falls madly in love with her, the whole world begins to shake for him, he wanders around like a dreamer who doesn't know whether it's day or night. However, Lotte is already taken. She is soon to marry her fiancé Albert. Werther becomes an unhappy part of a love triangle, oscillating between hope, insecurity and disappointment as if intoxicated and increasingly reaching the limits of his sanity. He experiences an emotional rollercoaster ride between passion, longing, expectation and despair. As an outsider, he also fails to find the place in society that he so desperately desires - and so his fate takes a fatal turn.

How should young people deal with a situation like the one Werther experiences? Where are the boundaries to be drawn between friendship, affinity and love? Who bears responsibility for themselves and others, for life, love and death? Goethe's Sturm und Drang novel became a bestseller soon after its publication in 1774 and Goethe himself wrote: "The effect of the little book was great, indeed tremendous". Many contemporary reviewers demonized "The Sorrows of Young Werther" as an incitement to suicide; young people, on the other hand, quickly stylized Werther as the tragic pop star of his time. And although it is now 250 years old, the "first modern novel in the German language" is still able to captivate us as if it had been experienced today, written today.

Note: Stroboscopic effects (rapid flashes of light) are used in this production.