Frank Markus Barwasser as Erwin Pelzig - Who We Become

ERWIN PELZIG
Who We Become
A new stage programme featuring Erwin Pelzig

When people wake up in the morning wondering which crisis will be most important today, there are 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 much-discussed "change fatigue" does to us: who we become in times of fundamental transformation. Humanity has never liked such changes - they always meant danger, risk and uncertainty. Then realism, reason and composure rarely flourished; it was always the hour of doomsayers and apocalypticists who very successfully exploit the fears and longings of frightened people. But merely describing problems and crying out about them is not an option for someone like Pelzig. 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 brain research, into the uncharted vastness of the universe, and into the thought world of wise stoic philosophers. Erwin Pelzig: "Sometimes you might think you only have the choice to go mad or become religious. I've tried both. I can't recommend either".

Frank-Markus Barwasser has performed with this character on German theatre stages for over 30 years. Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote: "The voice of the grumbling stoic, the fighting empath, the sensible man who nonetheless doesn't know everything better, the voice of the ordinary person who knows he is crazy in his own way". For 3SAT, Barwasser recently produced the nine-part series "Beim Pelzig auf der Bank".