In word cascades the politicians pour themselves into the text and out of the text. Like a mantra, the expectations linked to this profession are repeated over and over again, exaggerated, undermined, hollowed out, strained, and in the process constantly transferred into the private sphere. What politicians can, must, should, should not, should not and may not and may not at all do, is drilling ever deeper into the ear and the brain. At the same time nothing is as it seems. This time the poet Wolfram Lotz wrote for the theatre. And approaches the politicians with a lust and lightness that lets us forget that this professional group often seems wooden and bloodless. He takes them into his poem and repeatedly touches on the abysmal loneliness of the individual, who always has to be a politician of himself.
"Lear meets Wolfram Lotz's latest theatrical text, the light-footed, refined, highly rhythmic spoken play Die Politiker, a stream of thought-fast words whose cascades wash around childhood fragments, canisters and "feeble signals in the darkness". (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
Wolfram Lotz
Die Politiker
(Auch zur Aufführung mit Texten anderer Autorinnen)
UA: 30.08.2019 · Deutsches Theater, Berlin · Directed by: Sebastian Hartmann
Translated into: Danish
Die Politiker
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Süddeutsche Zeitung
So geistesklar und präsent wie Cordelia Wege das spielt, ist es die beste bewusstseinserweiternde Droge, die derzeit im Theater zu haben ist.
NachtkritikUnd der Lotz strahlt, wird schärfer, bissiger, dann wieder relaxter, jede Verschiebung funkelt, jede Pointe passt.
Der Tagesspiegel[Ein] Text, der der Learschen Depression, ironisch mehrfach gebrochen, eine Art Wutbürger-Suada entgegensetzt: die Wiederkehr der Tragödie als Farce.
Berliner MorgenpostEs ist ein eiskalter Platzregen, eine Überwältigung aus Sprache, strukturiert durch die Wiederholung [...], ohne Verlangsamung durch Kommas, schnell, lustig, traurig, sinnlos, blitzgescheit, alles zugleich.
The New York TimesThe Kammerspiele’s terrific ensemble is also front and center in ‚The Politicians‘, a dramatic monologue by Wolfram Lotz. It’s a lengthy poetic manifesto that feels outraged and urgent [...]. In its incantatory power and rhythmic flow, it can be mesmerizing on a purely aural level, and its mix of sense and nonsense opens up an infinite number of theatrical possibilities.