Presumably in order to avoid the Christmas contemplation, the Deutsches Theater Berlin resorts to higher nonsense and an early New Year’s Eve premiere with Claudia Bauer’s rather ravishing production of “Ursonata”. The director and the composer Peer Baierlein turn the long poem, with which the Dadaist Kurt Schwitters freed language from the prison of meaning, grammar and complete sentences at the end of the 1920s, into a sophisticated spoken opera with a brilliantly performed ensemble.
“Ursonate” by Kurt Schwitters: Words are there to be played with – culture
