Prose for Elisabeth

"A young man also died in this beautiful garden ... when he hit the power line with the jackhammer he borrowed from his brother-in-law."

Even in his prose texts, Händl Klaus works with so much rhythm, rhyme and melody that the boundaries to poetry seem to blur. He is a precise observer who knows how to turn the everyday into absurd images and describes them so sparingly that not one syllable is too many. He is a multi-award-winning Dramatician, lyricist, actor, filmmaker and librettist. And he has been associated with the Tiroler Landestheater, which he familiarly calls "our theater", since childhood.

These texts, some of which vary greatly in length, invite us into very different worlds, worlds that Händl Klaus knows how to create with just a few words and yet are strangely familiar to us in their brevity. Director Jonas Knecht, who staged the live radio play Die Bergbahn last season, also wants to follow this invitation conceptually. He will leave the usual theater framework and find off-stage venues for the texts.

Cooperation between Theater Erlangen and Theater St. Gallen