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Am Königsweg
By Elfriede Jelinek
“To me, the King doesn’t look as if he wants to do anything at all. Except incur debts – but that’s also our fault.”
Elfriede Jelinek’s sombre, meandering text focuses on kings governing worlds and the prophets/prophetesses who comment on their rule. Both are afflicted by blindness. The author takes a look at current global developments, letting motifs from mythology and western cultural history shine through, paraphrasing, counteracting and lampooning them as “visionary poetess” who eternally passes comment. “King” Donald Trump, who owes his supremacy to his activities as a property dealer, casino operator and reality TV performer, stands in the context of a world system whose power and ownership structures are based on credit and debt. Jelinek prophesies that those who have always accompanied civilisation as poets and thinkers will eventually fall silent.
Cast and Team
Actor
Henrike Johanna
Jörissen
Actor
Elisa
Plüss
Live Music
Becky Lee
Walters
Set Designer
Barbara Ehnes
Costumes and Puppets
Annabelle Witt
Dramaturg
Andreas Karlaganis
Assistant Director
Marco Milling
Assistant Stage Designer
Sandra Antille
Assistant Costume Designer
Selina Tholl
Literary Assistant
Benjamin Große
Prompter
János Stefan Buchwardt
Stage Manager
Michael Durrer
Puppet Trainer
Dorothee Metz
Internship Direction
Linda Etter, Mirjam Berger
