In the organizer's words:
Rainald Goetz, the multi-award-winning, exceptional author, has entrusted the world premiere of his latest theater text to in-house director Elsa-Sophie Jach. The text is a wild mixture of genres: a diary and a requiem, interwoven with scenes from a crazy screenplay project with Helmut Dietl and Franz Xaver Kroetz, to whom Goetz also dedicates the play. And in it, he pays homage to his Bavarian homeland, the city of Munich as well as the foothills of the Alps. Playful, poetic, abysmal, absolutely undramatic - and, of course, brilliant.
"(...) meanwhile we had circled the Monopteros once and were walking back towards the Eisbach, where people were lying in the afternoon sun under the tall trees, and I had such an immense feeling of longing for this Munich we were walking through that I suddenly said, I can't help you, but I'd like to try it (....)"
Rainald Goetz's latest theater text is a wild mixture of genres: diary and requiem, interwoven with scenes from an insane screenplay project with Helmut Dietl and Franz Xaver Kroetz, to whom he also dedicates the play. And he pays homage to his Bavarian homeland, the city of Munich as well as the foothills of the Alps. Playful, poetic, abysmal, absolutely undramatic - and of course brilliant.
Celebrated as a radically honest observer of the present, Goetz, an exceptional author who has received many awards, now also looks to the past and the future: he remembers the beginning of his career and records the legacies of exclusively male companions, including Herbert Achternbusch, Josef "Sepp" Bierbichler, Albert Oehlen, Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre and Michael Rutschky, in addition to those already mentioned. And he prepares himself for his own disappearance.
Rainald Goetz, born in Munich in 1954, is performing at the Residenztheater for the first time. He places the world premiere of "Lapidarium" - the name stands for a collection of stone sculptures - in the hands of in-house director Elsa-Sophie Jach. The piece is the final part of a trilogy that began with "Im Reich des Todes" (premiered in 2020), an examination of the terror of September 11, followed by "Baracke" (premiered in 2023), which deals with the terror of the NSU.
The world premiere of "Lapidarium" marks the start of the 2025/2026 season's exploration of Munich's colorful and eventful history, which will continue with a world premiere by Albert Ostermaier and a project about Freddie Mercury.
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10 euros for pupils, students, trainees and volunteers up to 30 years of age
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