Frank Markus Barwasser as Erwin Pelzig - Who We Become

ERWIN PELZIG
Who We Become

When people wake up in the morning and first have to consider which crisis will be most important today, it doesn't pass without consequences. Social psychologists now diagnose us with "change fatigue". In his new stage programme, Frank-Markus Barwasser explores through his alter ego Erwin Pelzig what this widely described "change fatigue" does to us - who we become in a time of fundamental change.

Humanity has never liked such changes - they always meant danger, risk and uncertainty. Then realism, reason and composure rarely flourished; instead, the hour of doomsayers and apocalyptics always struck, those who very successfully exploit the fears and longings of frightened people. For someone like Pelzig, merely describing and railing against problems is not an option. So he searches - as always accompanied by 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, into the uncharted expanses of the universe, and into the world of thought of stoic philosophers.

Erwin Pelzig: "Sometimes you might think you have only the choice to go mad or become religious. I've tried both. Can't recommend either."

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