Brasch - Eidinger - Kranz – The Incompatible in a Poem

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Lars Eidinger is considered one of the most important actors of his generation. On 15.05.2027, he comes to Zurich with love poems by the poet Thomas Brasch. Congenially accompanied by George Kranz on drums, Lars Eidinger reads from Brasch's poetry collection. The work of the multi-talented Thomas Brasch, who died in 2001 and is now presented by Lars Eidinger, is diverse: witty verses, humorous, ironic poems, and always love. Every word finds the power to tell a story. "I love you can be / emphasized in three ways. / How do you say the sentence without emphasis?" For Thomas Brasch, love is an attitude that refuses any definition. An attitude that exposes its dreams fearfully and longingly to reality and always places the possible in the horizon of the impossible. His poetic passion hopes and despairs, trusts and deceives, praises and destroys. Eidinger not only reads love poems by Thomas Brasch – he immerses himself in them. Brasch loved Heine, Brecht, and Heiner Müller, and Eidinger, probably the most talented actor of his generation, loves Brasch. You can feel this immediately in this reading. The despair about the present, the love that makes it bearable, is brought to the stage by Eidinger precisely and with feeling. He bows in poetry before Brasch. The feelings brought to life so tangibly in the text are musically brilliantly supported by George Kranz. While Eidinger rarely uses the reduction of his physical action radius on stage, Kranz takes advantage of this. He impressively incorporates the dimensions of the stage into his play. The interplay of Eidinger-Kranz-Brasch makes this evening a stage work of an extraordinary kind. "Eidinger quotes, when asked how he lives his art, often Thomas Brasch, one of his life authors: 'MY PROFESSION IS NOT TO HIDE MYSELF, but to discover myself publicly, to find myself by losing myself, ...' Brasch and Eidinger seem to be in the same paradoxical situation: They face the public with full risk, with open visor, with their wounds and their sad anger." Süddeutsche Zeitung (2025). About George Kranz:
George Kranz, born 1956. From 1980–83 drummer of the Berlin band Zeitgeist, simultaneously working with Ulla Meinecke. In 1983, Kranz gained international fame with his solo single "Trommeltanz" or also "Din Daa Daa." Further solo albums followed, including "Move it!" (1989) and "Sticky Druisin'" (1995). In addition, he repeatedly composed music for film and television. Since "Alles Plastik" (directed by Wolfgang Kolneder, 1980), regular work at the Grips Theater – as a musician in "Linie 1" (directed by Wolfgang Kolneder, 1986) as well as a lyricist, composer, or producer. Also work as an actor, e.g., in the film "Magic Sticks" (1987), for which he also wrote the title song of the same name, and under the direction of Thomas Brasch in "Der Passagier – Welcome to Germany" (1988). Since then, he has written theater and film music and worked with Third World, The Roots, the Ying Yang Twins, the Phenix Horns, and many others.

Highlights

• Lars Eidinger reads from Thomas Brasch's poetry collection
• Accompanied by George Kranz on drums
• Event on 15.05.2027 in Zurich

General Information

On May 15, 2027, Lars Eidinger presents a reading from Thomas Brasch's poetry collection at the Volkshaus Zurich. Eidinger, one of the most important actors of his generation, is musically accompanied by George Kranz and impressively brings out the emotional depths of the love poems.

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Stauffacherstrasse 60, 8004 Zürich, Schweiz

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