A Virtual Reality Experience by RAUM+ZEIT (ALTHOFF/KITTSTEIN/MIKESKA)
SCHIFFBAU MATCHBOX
World premiere: 23. Oktober 2024
duration: ca. 80 min. without break
«A kiss without consequences costs 10 franks.»
(in a letter by Sabina Spielrein to S. Freud via C.G. Jung)
In the summer of 1904, the Russian Spielrein family stays at the Hôtel Baur en Ville on Paradeplatz. Shortly afterwards, Sabina, their 18-year-old daughter, begins to riot and provokes their hospitalisation in the Burghölzli. She seeks help and distance from her family. The deputy secondary physician C.G. Jung tries out Sigmund Freud's ‘novel talking cure’ on her. Spielrein soon began studying medicine herself and wrote her doctoral thesis on schizophrenia. The married Jung became entangled in a relationship with her, and the therapeutic relationship was never dissolved. When it came to a break, Spielrein left Zurich and was accepted into Freud's Viennese ‘Wednesday Society’. Spielrein's ideas influenced both Jung and Freud. Long before the latter, she formulated a theory of the death instinct. In August 1942, Spielrein, her daughters and all the other Jewish people in her home town of Rostov-on-Don were murdered by the SS and forgotten.
An immersive installation, DOKTOR SPIELREIN combines virtual reality and live play. The collective RAUM+ZEIT was invited to the 2019 Schweizer Theatertreffen with their VR production ANTIGONE :: COMEBACK and won the Friedrich Luft Preis in 2022 for BERLAU :: KÖNIGREICH DER GEISTER.
Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 21.48, duration 80 minutes.
From the age of 16.
Trigger warning: The production thematises violence, mental illness, abuse, death and the Shoah. Sensory warning: Virtual reality glasses are worn in parts of the production. Parts of the production take place in confined spaces.
Manuela Hollenweger
Lu Läderach
Eva Pelzner
Nadine Rhomberg
Salmo Suyo Salazar Gutierrez
Joane Schelling
Cindy Schrepfer
Leandra Wolf
Heimspiel GmbH
Trailer © Nicolai Hildebrandt
«Buchstäblich ein Wahnsinnsprojekt, mit technischer Gewitztheit und psychischer Wucht.»
«Die Technik ist beeindruckend, und doch sind es, wie immer bei Raum+Zeit, die unmittelbaren Begegnungen, die faszinieren, die haften bleiben, die sich im Gemüt festkrallen.»
«[Dem Stück] verdankt man eine neue ästhetische Erfahrung ebenso wie schmerzliche psychologische Selbsterfahrung.»
review on telezueri.ch (23/10/2024, from Min. 11:30)