Mona Winter

Waiting is not Franzi’s thing. And yet she is often forced to wait… When the world beckons her son, Bubi. When pioneers take him into their midst and promise him adventure. Because war is heroic when you’re on the right side.
Franzi lives through writing. Sometimes the words become cannibals. They gobble her up. Then the writer starts to hate writing. She doesn’t actually want books, she wants to write life. But words attack her. They start to run riot in her head. She can’t resist them. When she plunges into the words, they get her gender. Her language, her writing becomes part of her body. And she is immediately lost to the world of men.
Zuviele Engel hier is written through a series of words that take on new meaning through displacement and pointed accents. Through this, the play works with refractions: satirical exaggerations, quotes from Fanziska’s life, comic elements, tragic crashes, dream sequences and musical stories.
Countess Franziska zu Reventlow (1871-1917) became famous beyond the borders of Bavaria. Manly in her sexual desire, feminine in her courage, childish in her games. Through her excesses of love, she moulded herself as an artist and cult icon. Rebellious and mostly in opposition to family, the state and the prevailing morals, she anticipated every libertine impulse that was prefigured in Europe’s subculture during the First World War and that later exploded in the cities. (Mona Winter)