Presse – Great Depressions

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“Malte Scholz in fur garb tells an intimate brother tale in the magnificently recreated Neanderhöhle, dealing with depression and suicide, while the Neanderthal finder Johann Fuhlrott was already pondering how these early humans might have lived together and what that means for us.”
(Eva-Maria Magel, FAZ, 3.12.2018)

“Witty, somewhat melancholic and very entertaining”
(Eva-Maria Magel, FAZ, 3.12.2018)

Great Depressions, studioNAXOS, Frankfurt, 2018

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Malte Scholz tells an intimate brother tale of depression and suicide in the magnificently recreated Neanderhöhle.

(FAZ)

Craggy rocks, a mammoth, wisps of fog: this opulent stage design takes the audience to the cave in the Neandertal where, in 1865, the skeleton of an early human was found. Wearing a robe of fur, Malte Scholz bares the vulnerability of his soul in a moving monologue.

In days of old, in order to assuage feuds, people compensated injuries with benefits in kind, instead of revenging them eye for an eye. It was thus of great import to precisely differentiate whether, for example, an injured eyelid could still hold a tear, if a lame foot could still knock the dew from a piece of grass or if a blow to the head had exposed the brain. The collective appraisal of wounds opened up a symbolic space of negotiation and society. Here, our vulnerability appears as the bedrock of money and the economy, which now, it seems, are in turn responsible for inflicting harm and feelings of deep indignity upon us. Is it possible to remain vulnerable in this world without going under? Great Depressions is a show about the question of whether and, if so, how we want to live together.

Premiere on 29 November 2018. Further performances in Frankfurt on 30.11.18, 2.12. 18, 24.05.19, 25.05.19, 26.05.19 & in Düsseldorf on 20.06.19, 22.06.19, in Dresden on 16.11.19 and 17.11.19, in Leipzig on 28.02.20, 29.02.20 and in Bremen on 12.09.20, 15.10.20. Great Depressions had its radio play premiere on HR2 Kultur on 25.06.22.

With Jacob Bussmann, Malte Scholz, Elias Bollinger, Siria Hertel, Raúl Flores and Sebastian Weygold. Director: Jan Philipp Stange, stage design: Jakob Engel, dramaturgy: Kris Merken, costume design: Maylin Habig, lighting: Simon Möllendorf and Nils Wildegans, music: Jacob Bussmann, production management: Carmen Salinas, press and public relations: Anja Schneidereit, assistant director: Jannika Nordhauss, stage assistant: Tobias Rauch, costume assistant: Siria Herte, script: Kris Merken, Malte Scholz and Jan Philipp Stange, | photos by Jakob Engel

With generous support from studioNAXOS, the City of Frankfurt Department for Culture, the Naspa Foundation and the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain.

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