At the beginning of September, Elfriede Jelinek lost her husband, computer scientist and electronic musician Gottfried Hüngsberg. He died of sudden heart failure: instantaneous death. A catastrophe for the Austrian writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. “It’s so horrifying,” she wrote in a recent email, “I’m having such a hard time dealing with everything.” All the more touching that the deceased now appears on the stage of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin and lives on here in a play by her, keeps tinkering – he was probably an electronic inventor and nerd. At least that’s what the actor Bernd Moss gives him, who with black hair (like Gottfried Hüngsberg), glasses and headphones sits at a table the whole evening, working on his computer, listening to tapes, unperturbed and focused on his sound work, while his A woman does what she always does and does best: as a narrative, writing-speaking I, cutting stumbling blocks through the unreasonable demands of the world.
Jelinek premiere at the Deutsches Theater Berlin: “Indication of the person” – culture
