
"We’re here. We belong to us. We’re here at home." In Elfriede Jelinek’s Wolken.Heim. the word "we" is used to excess: "We but we but we but we...". The text was written in 1988, a few months before the tumultuous years of reunification that made it possible to turn Germans into a collective subject again. In a spinning vortex of language, the play conjures up an incantation in a frantic search for a definition of who "we" are. What is essentially German, what is the German nation? "We" is a place somewhere between heaven and home, between a castle in the air and a crypt. "We" are a country of idealism, a country of fascism: in between there is Germany, in the middle of nowhere on a never-ending search for an identity that defines itself by excluding what is foreign. "We’re here. The others are there. But not us, not us!" Elfriede Jelinek’s highly artificial prose text is interwoven with quotations: distorted, subverted versions of Hölderlin, Hegel, Heidegger, Fichte, Kleist and letters written by the German RAF become testimonies to nationalism. The words of poets and thinkers, and the speeches of the perpetrators and murderers, flow into one in this language archive of the German soul. The ensemble of the director Martin Laberenz, who previously staged Elfriede Jelinek’s WUT at the Deutsches Theater, sets off in search of the phantasms of the German "we" thirty years after the fall of the Wall and the publication of this play.
Director Martin Laberenz
Stage Design Bettina Pommer
Costumes Aino Laberenz
Music Polina Lapkovskaja
Lighting Marco Scherle
Dramaturgy Bernd Isele
Premiere
29 November 2019
Kammerspiele
29 November 2019
Kammerspiele
Edgar Eckert

Lorena Handschin

Holger Stockhaus

Birgit Unterweger

Regine Zimmermann

Performance has been cancelled
With English surtitles
7. December 2019 20.00 - 21.30
19.30 Uhr – Introduction, Saal
With English surtitles
13. December 2019 20.00 - 21.30
19.15 Talk with Martin Laberenz – Saal
Tickets
Tickets & prices
Price | Regular |
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Preisgruppe 1 | 30,00 EUR |
Preisgruppe 2 | 23,00 EUR |
Tickets for pupils and students: DT/Kammerspiele 9 € (at the box office only); Box/Saal 8 or 6 € (online available)
With English surtitles
29. December 2019 19.30 - 21.00
Tickets
Tickets & prices
Price | Regular |
---|---|
Preisgruppe 1 | 30,00 EUR |
Preisgruppe 2 | 23,00 EUR |
Tickets for pupils and students: DT/Kammerspiele 9 € (at the box office only); Box/Saal 8 or 6 € (online available)
What's on
Saal
16.00 - 17.00
sold out
perh. remaining tickets at evening box office
perh. remaining tickets at evening box office
With English surtitles
Director: Stephan Kimmig
Deutsches Theater
20.00 - 21.30
With English surtitles
Performance has been cancelled
Director: Martin Laberenz
Due to a case of illness we are sorry to cancel Wolken.Heim. by Elriede Jelinek tonight. Tickets already bought will be refunded or exchanged at the box office within two weeks. The next performance of Wolken.Heim. will be on Friday, 13 and Sunday, 29 December.
Kammerspiele
20.00 - 21.30
19.30 Uhr – Introduction, Saal
Bar
20.30