Ingrid Lausund knows all about dead people. As the screenwriter of the ARD series “The Crime Scene Cleaner,” she is very familiar with the comedic potential of mortal remains. In her new play, now premieres at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, she takes the next step and asks what happens next with the immortal soul, if we have one. And what can we do to increase the prospects of a comfortable afterlife? And what if in fact neither Buddha nor the Christian Lord, but rather, for example, the higher being that gives Lausund’s play its title, “The Winged Frog God” should be responsible for setting the course towards paradise or hell? But how are you supposed to take seriously a god who, in his tastelessness, has chosen a frog shape? On the other hand: Doesn’t everyone make up their own God, including their ideas about the afterlife, as it suits them or as their own culture suggests? Images of hell, for example, arise from personal imagination. “In my case, hell would be Oktoberfest,” Lausund’s text once says. No wonder that the godless Berliners like this, who have to eke out their meaningless existence without the Oktoberfest.
“The Winged Frog God” at the German Theater Berlin – Culture
