Werthers Leiden

Nach Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1
10117 Berlin
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Werther’s unrequited love for Lotte is an emotional roller-coaster. The publication of this epistolary novel in 1774 provoked a wave of suicides, which illustrates how much of their own lives and fates Goethe’s contemporaries found in Werther. In a furious solo performance, Isaak Dentler re-enacts Werthers unconditional search for love, fulfilment and happiness. 
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Premiere
Schausieler im weißen Unterhemd mit einem Revolver in der rechten Hand zielend
Schauspieler ein rotes Paket werfend
Schauspieler stehend im weißen Unterhemd
Schauspieler in schwarz gekleidet hebt den linken Arm

Pressestimmen

"In his portrayal, which is enhanced with performance-art elements, Dentler manages to lend a voice to an injured soul, to a text that no longer unfolds the same impact that it once did when merely read. His Werther is a contemporary. An intense show. And a remarkable appropriation of an unclassical classic.”FAZ

“Isaak Dentler is blessed with sufficient stage presence and does not need much more than a few props for his performance. He sketches the psychological profile of a young man who loses his grip of his life because his emotional exuberance pulls out the rug from under his feet. Ranging from manic happiness and grinning infatuation to fury, misogyny and a depressed, whisky-induces wooziness, Dentler marks the emotional surges of his rather unheroic hero.”Theater Heute

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