»It pisses me off. Your croppy stuff!« – Forster citizens rehearse Coriolan (World Premiere)
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About the production
Start
7 p.m.
End
9 p.m.
The story of the rise and fall of the great individualist Coriolanus is fascinating and highly topical. Caius Marcius, nicknamed Coriolanus after his victory at the city of Corioli, is a seemingly indomitable and boundlessly proud warrior; a free radical and radical freeman who deeply despises the rules and community-building customs of the Roman Republic. After suppressing a hunger revolt by the plebeians and defeating the neighbouring Volscians, he aspires to the highest political office of consul. But Coriolanus does not want to be elected because he considers himself chosen. In order not to give up his independence and not to have to subordinate himself, he commits a fatal betrayal...
Many authors dedicated themselves to this challenging and provocative figure: William Shakespeare in his Roman tragedy »Coriolanus«, Bertolt Brecht in his adaptation of Shakespeare's play »Coriolan«, Plutarch in his biography, T. S Eliot in his poems and Günter Grass and Heiner Müller in their plays »Die Plebejer proben den Aufstand« and »Germania 3«, in which theatre rehearsals for Brecht's play »Coriolan« take place and are caught up in social reality and to a certain extent put to the test themselves. Historically, republican democracy arises, among other things, from the overcoming of a type of ruler embodied by Coriolanus; today, new Coriolans are working worldwide to overcome democratic communities.
Reason enough to take a look at the autocratic patrician and liberal egomaniac Coriolanus in a polyphonic evening of theatre. Jürgen Kuttner, cultural scientist, radio presenter and theatre artist, is developing and staging »It pisses me off. Your croppy stuff!« in Forst and approaches the complex figure from different angles. In his theatre works and theatrical solo evenings, Kuttner repeatedly addresses social, cultural, political and artistic phenomena, topics and issues and makes entertaining connections between the obvious and the remote. (Between 2018 and 2020, for example, he performed his »Videoschnipseln« at the Staatstheater Cottbus). In a mixture of show, revue, stage essay, theatre play and lecture evening, he creates multifaceted networks of life and art worlds. In various artistic and theatrical forms of expression, Kuttner meanders through history and stories and throws illuminating spotlights on our pasts, presents and futures.
Together with familiar and new artistic partners and a citizens' choir from Forst and the surrounding area, Kuttner collects fragments of the Coriolanus material, throws and shakes them up and presents them in kaleidoscopic constellations. Fragments and found objects from antiquity to the present day are presented in this hybrid theatre archaeology. The venue for »It pisses me off. Your croppy stuff!« is the multifunctional event hall in the former Grand Hotel and later Kulturhaus »Forster Hof« in Forst, whose architecture and history of use manifest a special connection between art, politics and socioculture and which the Lausitz Festival is reviving with its theatre programme.
Jürgen Kuttner
Jürgen Kuttner is a German radio presenter, cultural scientist, theatre director and freelance artist. He was one of the long-standing presenters of the radio station Fritz and Radio Eins and co-founder of the East German edition of the »Tageszeitung«. He was born and grew up in Berlin. He studied cultural studies at Humboldt University and received his doctorate in 1988.
Until reunification, he worked for the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR. In 1990, he was instrumental in founding the eastern edition of the »tageszeitung« newspaper, for which he worked until 1992. Kuttner began his radio career at the GDR youth radio station DT64, from which the rock radio station B of Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB) emerged in January 1992. In 1993, the radio station Fritz emerged from the co-operation with SFB. Until the end of 2007, the talk radio programme hosted by Jürgen Kuttner was a fixed part of the broadcasting schedule. Other radio and TV programmes followed until 2022.
In addition to his talk radio evenings on Fritz, Kuttner has held monthly video snippet lectures entitled »Von Mainz bis an die Memel« at the Volksbühne in Berlin since November 1996. Kuttner is now known nationwide in Germany, Austria and Switzerland for his commented video snippets.
Kuttner has been involved in various theatre projects as a director, author and performer for several years. From 2020 to 2022, he co-directed the Augsburg Brecht Festival with Tom Kühnel. Many of his directing projects take place in close collaboration with director Tom Kühnel and artist and puppeteer Suse Wächter.
Artists
Play and Production Jürgen Kuttner
Dramaturgy Michael Höpper
Location
Location Forster Hof, Forst
Address Cottbuser Str. 24, 03149 Forst (Lausitz)
