DIE ZUSCHAUER von Martin Heckmanns

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DIE ZUSCHAUER
by Martin Heckmanns

Final camp of the 3rd year 2024/25
Direction: Paul Brusa

Content:
How does the audience sit in the theater today and how do they leave it after a performance? Changed? Enriched? Deceived? Martin Heckmanns creates a kaleidoscope of small scenes and stories that take place in the auditorium of the theater. The text does not allow itself to be dismissed at the theater exit, but accompanies the audience on their journeys home and follows them into their homes. The result is a chorus of very different voices. There are married couples, who are watching each other in the auditorium, a father and son who are brought closer together by a visit to the theater, a couple on their first date who realize that they cannot save the stage ideal of romantic love for their everyday lives on the way home, and of course there is Mr Matuschek, who quits his job at a tabloid magazine after seeing a "drama of the oppressed" and experiences his own catharsis. Other nameless voices mingle with these characters in their relationship to the theater. Spectators who experience the theater, others who want to understand it and still others who are already racking their brains over the understanding of understanding. Heckmann's play allows observers to observe the effects of the theater, its magic and its disappointments, the collision of theater and life as well as the refinement of life through the theater, where there is always the danger that "outside everything falls apart again into individual parts, which here always fits together coherently into a story", but also a theater in which evening after evening there is the chance "that something completely new can begin".

Martin Heckmanns grew up in Herford, where he graduated from Friedrichs-Gymnasium in 1990. He studied philosophy, history and comparative literature and completed his studies with a thesis on wit in early Romanticism. He has published short prose in magazines and anthologies and has written plays that have been performed in more than ten countries. He has been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships, most recently the Lower Rhine Literature Prize of the City of Krefeld in 2008 and the Margarete Schrader Prize of the University of Paderborn in 2012. In 2002, he was voted Young Playwright of the Year in the critics' poll of the magazine theater heute. In 2003 and 2004 he received the Audience Award at the Mülheim Theater Festival. He has taught scenic writing at the Berlin University of the Arts, the Bundesakademie Wolfenbüttel and at the Wiesbaden Biennale "New Plays from Europe", at the Workshop Days at the Vienna Burgtheater and at the Swiss Drama Processor. Between 2009 and 2012, Heckmanns was dramaturge and in-house author at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden. In 2023 he was a fellow of the Villa Decius in Krakow.

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