René Pollesch

René Pollesch developed this theatrical monologue for and together with the actor Fabian Hinrichs; the title is taken from a conference held at Frankfurt University in 2001 that featured papers on the 'constitution of the subject and production of ideology' (Ich schau dir in die Augen, gesellschaftlicher Verblendungszusammenhang: Texte zu Subjektkonstitution und Ideologieproduktion, Ventil Verlag).More ...

Phantasm is a play about the experience, the wistfulness and the unpleasant after-effects of situations that have come to an end. Only when Chinese communism is suddenly replaced by capitalism can we see it clearly, can we genuinely perceive it in its absence. Precisely this paradox of ‘experience’ also confronts two lovers in the play by René Pollesch. More ...

In his play Cappuccetto Rosso (Little Red Riding Hood), which was premiered in 2005 at the Salzburg Festival, René Pollesch again has his tried and trusted actors from the Prater at the Berlin Volksbühne (Sophie Rois, Christine Groß, Caroline Peters, Volker Spengler), whose own identities in real life merge indivisibly with their roles or, more accurately, their existences in the play, reflect on the most varied facets of representation, whether it be in everyday life or Germans’ efforts to come to terms with their past.More ...

"1000 Dämonen wünschen Dir den Tod" (i.e."1.000 Demons Want Your Death")
"Twopence-Twopence und die Voodoothek (i.e. "Twopence-Twopence and the Voodootheque"
"In diesem Kiez ist der Teufel eine Goldmine" (i.e."The Devil's a Goldmine in this quarter")
"Diabolo - Schade, dass er der Teufel ist" (i.e. "Diablo - a Shame He's the Devil")
"Die Magie der Verzweiflung" (i.e."The Magic of Desperation")

René Pollesch’s social satire and theatrical soap opera “Prater-Saga, 1-5” consists of five evenings of theatre, a set of loosely interconnected plays in which he discusses a series of variations on the central themes that come up in his social criticism again and again – globalisation, capitalism and the human being as a commodity or a free individual.More ...

René Pollesch's "Pablo in the Plus" is a product of clip aesthetics, a telenovella between trash and theory, the web and advertising, based on the lurid seventies look and with that epoch's melodic sounds backing big blocks of text. No story, no subject, no offer of identification.More ...

"Stadt als Beute" applies to the human organism changed utilization of redundant urban areas and their activation as real estate promising great profits: marketing as an instrument of social control.
"Insourcing the Home. People in Crap Hotels" is based on an idea by Renate Lorenz, Brigitta Kuster, and Pauline Boudry, who rented rooms in an Office-Suite Hotel or boardinghouse, which is advertised as "Home in a Hotel".
"Sex." What on earth is sex meant to be? What is SEX? Somehow only men seem to know.More ...

This play follows on from "Heidi Hoh". Conditions are worse and Heidi, sitting at her PC at home, once again reflects on her work situation and the identity forced on her by a capitalism running amok. With her notebook plugged into conditions she rejects, Heidi Hoh is obsessively seeking a dream of reality. "I DON'T WANT TO LEAD THIS LIFE ANY LONGER! More ...