Warum nur – warum?

Description

Nighttime conversation about merits and misdeeds. Or perhaps a theatrical confrontation with a destiny. The Zurich Oberland poet Jakob Stutz was one of the most popular Swiss authors of his time. His "Paintings from the Folk Life" and his autobiography "Seven times seven years from my life" were very popular with readers. They served as the first and most important source for folk customs in the Zurich Oberland in the first half of the 19th century. As a talented child from the countryside, he was encouraged in his youth and developed into a colorful personality. He became a crafts and elementary school teacher, writer and poet father, editor and adult educator, social reformer, and founder of a savings bank. Since childhood, he was haunted by the awareness of being different from other boys. As an adult, he clashed with the law due to his homosexual orientation and repeatedly asked himself in prison: "Why only – why?" Matthias Peter, theater maker and author, addresses Jakob Stutz and his fate on the double anniversary – 225th birthday and 150th death anniversary. With a theatrical monologue about his merits and misdeeds, he brings the poet to life as a revenant in a small memorial exhibition, giving him a voice and sharing his development and inner struggles with the audience, without excusing any misconduct. The main locations of the story are the Zurich Oberland communities of Hittnau, Sternenberg, Fischenthal, Pfäffikon, and Bäretswil. But also the city of Zurich as well as Schwellbrunn and Trogen in the canton of Appenzell-Ausserrhoden. By and with Matthias Peter. www.text-theater.ch www.matthiaspeter.ch Participants and additional information: Matthias Peter