Munich is a circus city, as the rush for tickets for Cirque du Soleil’s month-long guest performance proves once again. But artists from the local junior schools have a harder time here than professionals. Once they have been trained at international institutes, very few people return permanently. It could have been the same for Johannes Böhringer. He developed his talent in the Grafinger artistic club Movimento, then he went to the Codarts circus school in Rotterdam and received his master’s degree in 2019; Special area: Climbing on the Chinese mast, in a special short version.
That would be something for the variety shows of the world. But Böhringer prefers to see himself as a researching, artistic, playing, contemporary acrobat. So he is now bringing his solo play debut to the HochX Theater: “Artistry from Munich for Munich,” he says, supported by the cultural department. In “The Paper People Paradox” he makes friends out of paper as Mr. Paper, who also admire him at the Tiny Pole, but behave differently than he imagines. It’s supposed to be an odyssey through the ups and downs of human feelings on the borders of fantasy and reality: the loneliness of the independent artist.
The Paper People Paradox, 19-21 Jan., Fri. and Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 6 p.m., HochX, Entenbachstr. 37, theater-hochx.de