Frank-Markus Barwasser alias Erwin Pelzig - Who We Become

When people wake up in the morning wondering which crisis will be most important today, that doesn't come without consequences. Social psychologists now diagnose us with "change fatigue". In his new stage programme, Frank-Markus Barwasser's alter ego Erwin Pelzig explores what this much-discussed "change fatigue" does to us: who we become in an age of fundamental transformation. People have never liked such changes - they always meant danger, risk, and uncertainty. Then realism, reason, and equanimity rarely held sway; the hour always belonged to doomsayers and apocalypticists who exploit the fears and longings of frightened people with great success. But for someone like Pelzig, merely describing and railing against problems is not an option. So he searches - as always in the company of his two friends Hartmut and Dr. Göbel - for another way to deal with this mad world. This leads him into the well-explored realm of neuroscience, the uncharted vastness of the universe, and the thought-world of wise Stoic philosophers. Erwin Pelzig: "Sometimes you think you have only one choice: go crazy or become religious. I've tried both. Can't recommend either".

Frank-Markus Barwasser has been performing his artistic character on German theatre stages for over 30 years. Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote: "The voice of the grumbling Stoic, the combative empath, the down-to-earth sensible one who nonetheless doesn't know everything better, the voice of the ordinary person who knows he is mad in his own way". For 3SAT, Barwasser recently produced the nine-part series "With Pelzig on the Bench".