Lesung zu "ER PUTZT": mit Valeria Gordeev

In the organizer's words:

Ingeborg Bachmann Prize winner Valeria Gordeev reads "ER PUTZT".

Valeria Gordeev was awarded the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2023 for her detailed text fragment "ER PUTZT". Jury chairwoman Insa Wilke praised the text as a "plea for sensitivity".
In "ER PUTZT", Konstantin not only looks after his little sister Lada when his mother is on phone duty late into the night, but also cleans her kitchen. Dedicated and meticulous, accompanied by the sound and events of the 90s, he cleans every little crevice. In his cleaning obsession, he encounters himself and accepts his "inner dirt".
Director Marie Schleef is now bringing the text fragment to the theater stage for the first time and developing a slow motion performance that goes beyond language. In doing so, she embarks on an associative search for self-love, care work and alternative masculinity.
On 16 May, author Valeria Gordeev will read her award-winning text and talk to dramaturge Cosma Hahne about her work as a writer. This will be followed by the performance of "ER PUTZT", in which the audience can experience Konstantin's condition through an ASMR soundscape.

A production of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden