Tag: René Pollesch
Memorial ceremony for René Pollesch at the Berlin Volksbühne: “This is a recall campaign” – Culture
Towards the end of the evening, René Pollesch is canonized. Florentina Holzinger explains that she has clear evidence that he is actually Jesus, simply because Pollesch was the most generous…
On the future of the Berlin Volksbühne: The Ghost House – Culture
Visits to the Berlin Volksbühne currently have something spooky about them. After René Pollesch’s death almost three weeks ago, one has to think of the many other Volksbühne artists who…
Carl Hegemann on the late René Pollesch: We ourselves are the drama – culture
When one is on stage, there are always two. Remembering René Pollesch, who changed theater as an author and director. Help. Help. Help. René Pollesch’s last production begins with screaming…
René Pollesch shows his new piece “And now?” in Berlin – culture
Of Till Briegleb An agit-prop nerd, a would-be intellectual and Hans-Jürgen, who has undergone every imaginable training to become a night watchman in the Schwedt petrochemical combine, meet on the…
René Pollesch’s “Love, simply extraterrestrial” is running in the wrong theater – culture
The last Berlin premiere of the season, René Pollesch’s alien-culture-clash-sex-comedy “Love, simply extraterrestrial”, is both a wonderful gift for a good mood and an impertinence. The staging at the Deutsches…
In Berlin, René Pollesch and Michael Thalheimer stage culture
At the end, a desperate person stands on the empty stage and twists his face into a pained grimace. This silent scream looks like it will never stop. Before that,…
Power in theaters: is the Volksbühnen model the solution? – Culture
Overpowering directors: problematic. But is the counter-model, the allegedly hierarchy-free theater of the Berliner Volksbühne, more than just a phrase? Finally a theater puts an end to the one-man dictatorship…
René Pollesch at the Berliner Volksbühne: pure showing off – culture
Self-irony already works. Astrid Meyerfeldt grumbles at the beginning of the evening that she is tired of seeing the same piece again. And in fact the banner in the set…