Doppelabend Regie - Der Sandmann/Mutter Sauvage

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Directing projects by Lea Iris Meyer and Niklas Draeger

The Sandman
A gothic concert based on E. T.A. Hoffmann by Lea Iris Meyer

What else can we believe in when we can't even trust our own eyes? In E.T.A. Hoffmann's night play The Sandman, the protagonist Nathanael falls in love with Olimpia after a reawakened trauma and realizes far too late that she is not human, but an automaton. In times of deep fakes, virtual reality and AI chatbots, the work published in 1816 seems more relevant than ever. Student director Lea Iris Meyer relocates the story to the 1980s - Nathanael's trauma becomes the result of a post-capitalist depression and he seeks support in the emotional verses of dark wave and goth music. While his consumerist yuppie friends don't take his suffering seriously, Olimpia, an artificial intelligence, seems to be the only one who understands him.

Mother Sauvage
Based on the novella by Guy de Maupassant in a version by Niklas Draeger, Laura Tutondele Mahaniah and Hermann Müller

In 1871, in the middle of the Franco-Prussian War, Mother Sauvage lives in a hut in the forest, full of hope that the war will soon end and her son can return. One day, instead of her lost son, three Prussian soldiers arrive and declare themselves occupiers. But no enemy authority can rule for long in Mother Sauvage's household. What begins with a tense encounter develops into an unexpected peace. Despite the soldiers' efforts, however, a terrible secret comes to light, which is reciprocated by a terrible deed.

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