Stifters Dinge (Stifter’s Things)

Goebbels has created a metaphysical drama about perception, using a radically modern aesthetic...

- Berliner Zeitung

A concert for five pianos without a pianist. A theatrical work without actors. A show without performers. The immensity of the empty stage. The presence of things filling in the gaps of air. Light, paintings, sounds, voices, wind, piled-up instruments, mist, water, ice. The play, inspired by the writings of 19th century romantic author Adalbert Stifter, is performed on a daring stage set which demands the audience’s attention. Bach, William S Burroughs, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Malcolm X, Paolo Ucello and Ruisdael are the hosts for what Goebbels himself describes as “a show which believes in its own reality”. A homage to the objects which transform themselves into an experience of the senses, confronting the world of the inanimate.

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