Kupsch (Tankred Dorst)

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Kupsch is a one-person play by Tankred Dorst , which premiered on November 22, 2001 under the direction of Boris von Poser in the Deutsches Theater Göttingen .

The bachelor Kupsch - a failed medical student - loses his mind.

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Kupsch is considered a pleasant person. He always wears a scarf and organizes medical congresses. While studying medicine , he failed in anatomy . Kupsch couldn't bear to cut open a corpse. He still has his scalpel .

The lone gentleman refuses to have delusions. This office worker does not have a briefcase. Kupsch even comes to important meetings with a plastic bag.

The title hero has already received many marriage offers. But as soon as he had shared an apartment with the current lady, it was over. That should change with Hannah. Kupsch leads this woman into a 4-star restaurant and instead of an order, utters original sounds, which the politely smiling waiter takes as a Labskaus order. Kupsch indignantly demands the manager. The furious guest rams the heavy silver fork from the cutlery on the dining table into his body. Fortunately, the restaurateur's clothing absorbs the shock. Hannah makes off. Kupsch doesn't give up so easily with Hannah. He doesn't succeed in a new rendezvous with the lady, but faxes go back and forth between man and woman. An intimate fax relationship develops without a shared apartment. That is also not necessary. Kupsch receives more or less indistinct faxes from parts of Hannah's body. The nipple could have been a volcano. Kupsch is dissatisfied, thinks about his medical congresses and does better. He photographs himself undressed and sends the communication partner the whole cup at once. Despite all of this, there is no new date with Hannah. Kupsch fears that Hannah is going to bed with someone else in the meantime; with one who looks the way it once looked when it wasn't deformed. Because unfortunately in Kupsch there has to be a second, apparently older, definitely more misshapen person. The other in him comes out on the neck as a huge bump - like a second head. Hence the constant prop scarf. And the knees become twice as wide as before. Kupsch no longer goes to the office. The seams are bursting. The bastard's pipe in there comes out again like when ordering in a restaurant. In the shoe store, Kupsch can't even squeeze his foot into size 47.

Kupsch asks uncertainly about the limits of his body; Sometimes irritates, loses balance and falls. Kupsch calls a child on the street “very baggy”. In frustration, Kupsch builds up malice. The animal - the other - screams in him. Kupsch wants to rent out his apartment to the temporary carer for a small dog. Then he thinks about it: two beings want to move in. That will not do. Because the apartment is designed for one person. Kupsch screams he's a person.

Contrary to expectations, a dark, misshapen, clumsy figure squeezes out of Kupschen's body. Kupsch flees into the closet. The other follows and pulls open the cupboard door. The closet is empty. The other one devastates the apartment.

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2003, NDR : Kupsch. Director: Hans Gerd Krogmann . With Hans Peter Korff as Kupsch and Ulrike Grote as Hannah.

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  1. ↑ Edition used, p. 393, penultimate entry
  2. ↑ Kupsch. In: HörDat . Retrieved June 14, 2019 (search for title "Kupsch" on this page).
  3. ↑ YouTube Radio Play Part 1 ( Memento of 27 September 2013 Internet Archive ), Part 2 ( Memento of 26 September 2013 Internet Archive ), Part 3 ( Memento of 26 September 2013 Internet Archive ), Part 4 ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). See also HörDat entry