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“When we talk about dramaturgy, something always remains open, something that cannot be precisely defined, but which describes a creative open space. We can understand Carl Hegemann as the epitome of a dramaturge working in such terrain,” wrote one reviewer after the publication of Hegemann’s latest book.

In a collection of essays, the legendary mastermind behind Castorf’s Volksbühne, the collaborator of Bonn Park, Christoph Schlingensief, Jette Steckel, Vegard Vinge, once again outlined what he himself liked to call the “dramaturgy of existence”: a rejection of hollow pathos, a call to practiced, vital overload, helplessness and self-doubt.

Carl Hegemann was fond of quoting Hölderlin: “The day the beautiful world began for us, the meagerness of life began for us.” The evening in the Werkraum is unlikely to change that.

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Carl Hegemann, "Deutschland spielt immer noch die Nibelungen", Filzstift auf Berliner U-Bahnplan, 360 x 250 cm, anlässlich der Uraufführung von Heiner Müllers Germania 3 – Gespenster am toten Mann, Berliner Ensemble, 19. 6. 1996.

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Vegard Vinge, "Dasein des Dramaturgen", Kugelschreiberzeichnungen, zumeist 2021.

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Carl Hegemann, "Deutschland spielt immer noch die Nibelungen", Filzstift auf Berliner U-Bahnplan, 360 x 250 cm, anlässlich der Uraufführung von Heiner Müllers Germania 3 – Gespenster am toten Mann, Berliner Ensemble, 19. 6. 1996.

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Vegard Vinge, "Dasein des Dramaturgen", Kugelschreiberzeichnungen, zumeist 2021.

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