Frank-Markus Barwasser alias Erwin Pelzig - Who We Will Become

When people wake up in the morning and have to wonder 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 therefore explores the question of what this much-discussed "change fatigue" does to us: who we will become in a time of fundamental transformation. People have never liked such changes - they always meant danger, risk, and uncertainty. Then realism, reason, and composure rarely flourished; 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 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 crazy world. This leads him not only into the well-explored realm of neuroscience, into the uncharted expanses 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. 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 combative empath, the down-to-earth sensible person 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 "At Pelzig's on the Bench".