Handke möchte unbedingt, unbedingt edgy sein. (*) Read the book for Handke's words but watch the video to have a good time! It is such a treat that I (and you, if you wish) could watch this performance half a century later.more He and the other actors manfully managed to keep a straight face through most of the performance, but they, too, fell out of their roles a few times.

He enjoyed it for a while but was clear sighted enough to realize it was going to transform him into something he did not want to be and withdrew from the media's machinations.Īn additional pleasant surprise was to find Rüdiger Vogler as one of the four actors in Peymann's Uraufführung Vogler was the lead actor in most of Wim Wenders' early movies, including Wender's filming of Handke's Falsche Bewegung. This piece and his bold remarks at the 1966 meeting of the Gruppe 47 made Handke the darling of the media. He probably (rightfully) thought that his words were upstaged by the energetic, rhythmic choreography and Sprechchor.(*) Other directors followed Peymann's lead, though, and so after thirty performances in various places Handke forbade further performances (at least according to Malte Herwig in Meister der Dämmerung: Peter Handke, Eine Biographie). I love Claus Peymann's direction, but Handke didn't. This examination ranges from ironic demonstrations that Aristotle's 'unities' were being observed in the piece to an all out assault on the wall between the stage and the audience whose thoroughness includes evoking the audience's physical sensations and states, all done in a most nonacademic manner. Some in the audience decided that the rules didn't apply to them, either.īut the core of the piece is certainly not the provocation of the audience it is the examination and direct address of the assumptions of said standard Western theater. With all deliberateness Handke violated the most basic rules of standard Western theater and then ended the piece with ten minutes of hilarious and inventive insults directed at the audience. 1942) remarkable theater piece Publikumsbeschimpfung (1966, available in English under the title 'Offending the Audience') was such a succès de scandale on its opening night that German television was already there on the second night to film the performance! And here it is on YouTube: With all deliberateness Handke violated the most basic rules of standard Western theater and then ended the piece with ten minutes of hilarious and invent 1942) remarkable theater piece Publikumsbeschimpfung (1966, available in English under the title 'Offending the Audience') was such a succès de scandale on its opening night that German television was already there on the second night to film the performance! And here it is on YouTube.

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