Empusion
Theatre

A redeeming tale of horror

In Göbersdorf in Silesia, healing methods were developed that later brought Davos worldwide fame. Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, sets a horror story in Göbersdorf. The village is shrouded in a terrible secret. As in Mann's 'Zauberberg', a group of gentlemen meet for intellectual walks in the mountain air. While they discuss misogynistic theories by Darwin, Freud and Nietzsche, every year a young man dies in the nearby forest. After 'Onkel Wanja' and 'Antigone', Basel author Lucien Haug is dramatising a novel for Theater Basel for the first time. Antú Romero Nunes directs this symposium, to which the Empusen invite you.

Co-production with the Lausitz Festival and Schauspiel Köln, in collaboration with Staatstheater Cottbus