Sonne / Luft

In the organizer's words:

The sun burns - and with it, forests burn, whole areas wither, while elsewhere the sea level rises or streams burst their banks and flood everything. The sun is smiling - and with it, the air is happy to finally be able to breathe again soon, freed from all the dirt it has been weighed down with. For a long time, people thought they could control it - just like the earth, fire and water - and exploit it for themselves without limit and at will: a fatal hubris. For nature strikes back with serene composure and merciless harshness, taking revenge for what has been inflicted on it since time immemorial.

Elfriede Jelinek looks to the future and leaves no doubt: the climate catastrophe can no longer be stopped. The sun will soon fry us with relish and dry us out: "I work my way forward in thunder and throw flames.
Every flamethrower looks old next to me. I am the mother from whose hand whole countries receive death."

Charlotte Sprenger, who has already performed plays by the Austrian Nobel Prize winner in Bonn and Linz, will stage "Sonne / Luft", a Jelinek text for Gaußstraße.

Duration 2h, no intermission

PREMIERE On November 8, 2023, Thalia Gauss

Attention! Within the production there is a short scene (1-2 minutes) in which flashes of light are used as an effect.