Peer Gynt

In the organizer's words:

Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Bürger:Bühne - Guest performance as part of AUGENBLICK MAL! The festival of theater for young audiences

"King, Emperor I will be!" proclaims Peer Gynt. He lives in poor circumstances and is treated as an outsider. So Peer dreams himself into other worlds. He experiences wild adventures in his tall tales. And the young daredevil soon manages to cast a spell over people. He travels to distant lands and becomes very rich. But does his self-created self really make him happy?

We present ourselves to the world on social media and can claim to be whoever we want to be and escape reality like Peer Gynt. Director Joanna Praml explored the dangers and possibilities of digital egos with young people from Dresden. The young ensemble follows Peer's footsteps into fantastic parallel worlds in search of themselves.

Joanna Praml and her team develop participatory research work with professional and non-professional performers on various German-speaking stages. Together with Dorle Trachternach, she creates rewrites of classical material in connection with current issues. PEER GYNT is her third work at the Bürger:Bühne at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden.

a production of the Bürger:Bühne
with young people from Dresden on a trip in the social media
based on Henrik Ibsen
in a version by Joanna Praml and Dorle Trachternach