Frank-Markus Barwasser alias Erwin Pelzig - Wer wir werden. - zugunsten: Juliusspital Hospiz Würzburg

When people wake up in the morning and have to wonder which crisis will be most important today, that does not come without consequences. Social psychologists have already diagnosed 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 a time of fundamental change. People have never liked such changes - they always meant danger, risk and uncertainty. Then realism, reason and equanimity rarely had their day, then it was always the hour of doomsayers and apocalypticists who manage the fears and longings of frightened people with remarkable success. But for someone like Pelzig, merely describing and railing against problems 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 not least into the well-explored realm of neuroscience, into the uncharted expanses of the universe and into the thought world of knowledgeable Stoic philosophers. Erwin Pelzig: "Sometimes you might think you only have the choice to go mad or become religious. I have tried both. Can't recommend either".

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