Wer wir werden

Erwin Pelzig
"Wer wir werden"
Kaufbeuren Premiere

When people wake up in the morning and have to wonder which crisis will be most important today, it does not go 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 widely described "change fatigue" does to us: who we become in an age of fundamental transformation. Humanity has never liked such changes - they always meant danger, risk and uncertainty. Then realism, reason and composure rarely had a chance of success; the hour always belonged to doomsayers and apocalypticists who very successfully exploit the fears and longings of frightened people. But for someone like Pelzig, merely describing problems and shouting about them is not an option. That is why he searches - as always accompanied by his two friends Hartmut and Dr. Göbel - for another way to deal with this crazy world. This leads him, among other things, into the well-explored realm of brain research, into the uncharted vastness of the universe and into the world of thought of knowledgeable 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 been performing his artistic 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 reasonable person who nonetheless doesn't know everything better, the voice of the normal person who knows he is crazy in his own way." For 3SAT, Barwasser recently produced the nine-part series "Beim Pelzig auf der Bank".