EWIGE SONNE - Bühnen Bern

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Ewige Sonne after the novels Fall into the Sun and Village in Heaven by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz German by Steven Wyss, in a version by Felicitas Zürcher and Tilmann Köhler The writer, poet, and essayist Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, born in Lausanne, wrote two novels over 100 years ago that poetically and urgently deal with the famous final questions: What is worth living for? And how do we stand regarding our own finiteness? The heatwave of 1921 inspired Ramuz to the thought experiment Fall into the Sun: Due to an accident in the gravitational system, the Earth is getting hotter and inevitably rushing towards its end. At that time, the author knew nothing about climate change, yet he wrote an almost prophetic study on how humans deal with death. Village in Heaven, on the other hand, reads as both a utopia and a parable about current Switzerland: The inhabitants of a small mountain village rise from their graves and return to their lives—without pain, worries, illness, or death. But eventually, boredom and boredom creep into this paradise and threaten to destroy it. Although Ramuz was repeatedly considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he is almost unknown in the German-speaking world: Both novels have been published in recent years for the first time in German—in the translation of the young Thun resident Steven Wyss. After the staging of Bad Parents in 2021, director Tilmann Köhler returns to Bern and brings the two novels to the stage as a double evening. A production by Schauspiel Bern.