Werner Schwab

Volksvernichtung oder Meine Leber ist sinnlos
Eine Radikalkomödie
5 D, 2 H, 3 Dek
UA: 25.11.1991 · Münchner Kammerspiele (Werkraum) · Directed by: Christian Stückl
In Frau Wurm’s little kitchen, her crippled son, Hermann, is working on his pictures. He hopes to become a great ‘Graz artist’. He gets into a vicious argument with his mother, who would like to ‘do him in’. In turn, Hermann, who was sexually abused as a young child, indulges in sadistic fantasies of rape and murder. Only the appearance of the other occupants of the house can stop him from sticking a corkscrew into his mother’s head. It is just as nightmarishly brutal in the Kovacic family’s apartment. Herr Kovacic squashes the golden hamster, pulls one of his daughters into his lap lasciviously and pees himself in excitement. Frau Grollfeuer has invited the Wurms and the Kovacics to her birthday party. Here, the scorn and hate the tenants feel for each other escalates into a murderous free for all. The macabre turn only comes to an end when they all die from eating the cake that Frau Grollfeuer served them. The consummated “annihilation of the people” is the consequence of Frau Grollfeuer’s realisation that her attempt to “drink them into understanding” has failed: “My liver was for nothing. My liver is meaningless.” In the last act, they are all alive again and sit peacefully next to each other at Frau Grollfeuer’s birthday party singing Happy Birthday.
Schwab’s characters are products of their speech, emotionally and mentally disturbed like the rampant sentences that they constantly utter.
Translated into: Czech, Danish, English, Norwegian, Swedish

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