Lulu live

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Title: Lulu live
Genus: drama
Original language: German
Author: Günter Senkel & Feridun Zaimoglu
Literary source: Lulu by Frank Wedekind
Premiere: October 22, 2004
Place of premiere: Munich Kammerspiele

Lulu live is the Zaimoglu / Senkel version of Frank Wedekind's Lulu , which was directed in 2005 by Luk Perceval a . a. occupied by Julia Jentsch , Hildegard Schmahl and Annette Paulmann was premiered at the Münchner Kammerspiele . The world premiere took place on October 22, 2005 .

Perceval also made a 90-minute film about the performance.

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In the 2005 version, Lulu is a web prostitute who carries out requests from suitors in a chat room with a webcam.

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The news magazine Der Spiegel spoke of a “contemporary, disturbing version” of Wedekind's Lulu : “The piggy Internet dialogues between customers and employees (would) be projected onto a screen, behind which the real, sad lives of suitors and virtual ones Prostitutes play (s). "Silvia Stammen from the Neue Zürcher Zeitung was at least impressed by the statement in the version and summed up:" In a world without closeness, in which touch is only staged as a virtual exchange of goods, there can be no redemption, because not even the knife Jack the Rippers finds its victim. ”Lena Schmalisch of Art in Context also saw“ a time-critical, realistic picture of this problem ”, but also complained about the“ loss of identity of the actors, also with regard to the figure of Lulu ". The viewer is "made responsible for taking a stand" Wolf Banitzki from theaterkritik.de is not very convinced of the play, but saw "Perceval, who is undoubtedly very ambitiously looking for new forms that the theater needs in his opinion ( and) a work that purports to break with viewing habits "

Individual evidence

  1. Lulu, late middle class . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 2005, p. 159 ( online ).
  2. nzz.ch
  3. kunst-im-kontext.de ( MS Word )
  4. theaterkritiken.com ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theaterkritiken.com