Lars Eidinger liest Bertolt Brecht's Hauspostille

Lars Eidinger is considered one of the most important actors of his generation. Now  he is coming to Osnabrück with Bertolt Brecht’s “Hauspostille.” Accompanied brilliantly by musician and composer Hans Jörn Brandenburg on piano, harpsichord, and harmonium, Lars Eidinger sings and reads from Brecht’s collection of poems. Eidinger and Brandenburg take a deep breath of the wild Brecht and bring his poetry and “water-corpse poetry” to the stage as a dazzling total work of art. They revel in the eerie beauty of the morbid, which has already served as a model for pop culture icons such as David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Nick Cave.
 
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“Perhaps Eidinger and Brecht would have shared a close friendship had they lived at the same time. Both aim not merely to move or entertain their audience, but to stimulate thought and bring about change.” Leipziger Volkszeitung
 
“The actor of the moment, someone everyone’s talking about, someone you’ll never forget once you’ve seen him.” DIE ZEIT
 
“This is how Brecht would have liked it, since he certainly viewed music as an art form. Not as something pleasing, but as something dangerous.” Märkische Allgemeine
 
“Great art!” BZ
 
“And all of this calmly at the microphone, in consistently steady lighting, with restrained gestures and an even, almost fatalistic tone of voice that confidently avoids all false—that is, all overly emphatic or mannered—inflections.” Leipziger Volkszeitung
 
“Hans Jörn Brandenburg accompanies the performance alternately on piano, harmonium, or synthesizer. Weill, Eisler, and Bach shimmer like particles, postulating the concentrated economy of a ‘less is more.’” Leipziger Volkszeitung
 
“Heart-wrenchingly beautiful.” Bonner-General Anzeiger
 
 
 Lars Eidinger became known to a wide audience through his performance in Maren Ade’s “Alle Anderen.” He was dubbed “the It Boy of his generation.” Since then, he has appeared in numerous film and television productions both nationally and internationally. These include “Die Blumen von Gestern,” “Persisch Stunden,” “Babylon Berlin,” “25 km/h,” “Clouds of Sils Maria,” “White Noise,” “Irma Vep,” and most recently “Sterben” and “Das Licht.” His portrayal of a psychopathic serial killer in the Kiel-set “Tatort” episode “Borowski und der stille Gast” garnered him a great deal of attention. He has been a permanent member of the Schaubühne Berlin ensemble since 1999. He gained worldwide recognition as a stage actor particularly through his portrayals of the title characters Hamlet and Richard III in William Shakespeare’s plays of the same name. The New York Times wrote: “He might be the greatest Shakespearean actor you’ve never heard of.”
 
“The Hauspostille appeals to the reader’s emotions and intellect. It is recommended reading in times of raw natural forces and in hours of wealth, carnal awareness, and arrogance. It is to be sung amid the clang of harsh discordant sounds. Its motto is: ‘In gratitude for the sun’s rays, things cast shadows.’” So reads the instruction manual for “Bertolt Brecht’s Hauspostille,” which the playwright wrote between 1916 and 1925 and to which he added further works repeatedly throughout his life. The title Hauspostille is a parodic allusion to contemporary devotional collections of sermons.
 
Lars Eidinger: “Change the world—it needs it,” says Bertolt Brecht in “The Measure,” and then, “Who are you?” So there seems to be a direct connection between the question of our identity and the possibility of changing the world. “If we step out of the most narcissistic moment, recognize ourselves in the reflection, and reveal who we are, we can overcome our alienation from ourselves and from others and emerge from it transformed.”
 
Hans Jörn Brandenburg, who has worked for Frank Castorf and George Tabori, among others, served as musical director for all of Robert Wilson’s German-language world premieres during his career and collaborated in this context with Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Herbert Grönemeyer, and CocoRosie. With the band Felix De Luxe, he scored a hit in 1984 with the song “Taxi nach Paris.”