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Don Giovanni

"Where did you take the insane rights to which you have dedicated your life?" Asks George Sand the Legendary, confiding to Gottfried Benn casually: "I once dreamed, a young birch gave me a son." No other fictional character of modern times has received more journalistic attention than don Juan, the "seducer of Seville," who escaped from the pen of a Spanish monk in 1613. Only seven years younger than his compatriot Don Quixote, he has since made his way through dramas, epics, novels, and operas. He haunts movie screens and plasma screens, bragging about changing moral backgrounds - memorial and icon - with his famous list, laid out against death he throws as a stone shadow, "mine shall be hell!" Lord Byron heard him say.

A cutting chord opens on October 29, 1787 in the Count's Nostizschen National Theater in Prague under the direction of the composer, the overture to a Dramma giocoso on the death of DON GIOVANNI. In the history of music theater, this moment can be compared to the Big Bang. To put himself in the position of the rampant libertine and blasphemer, librettist Lorenzo da Ponte had time and again bring in flirtations with the daughter of his landlady in the mood. Mozart himself, successful the year before with his FIGARO, composes a fee of 1000 guilders under great time pressure. The overture will be finished on the day of the premiere at 7 o'clock in the evening. A "flash" sees Søren Kierkegaard, who "from the darkness of the weather cloud dissolves, unsteady than this and yet equally tactful. Hear the passion of unrestrained desire, hear the rush of love, hear the murmur of temptation, hear the vortex of seduction, hear silence for the moment - hear, hear, hear Mozart's Don Juan! "

The journey of hell, to which the archetype of moral reprehension has so far been condemned, this time takes him as a soul. Although the whole of Western metaphysics is endeavored to end, it no longer justifies the just in their indignation, but causes consternation. The liberty the libertine praises against prescribed humility makes him anarchist prototype on the threshold of the French Revolution. In his lawlessness, peeled as a life plan from the dictates of hormones, instinctual longings and self-realization fantasies of subsequent generations can be reflected.

The nineteenth century is transferred to him with a fist in order to pass him on to psychoanalysis in a meaningful way. Julia Kristeva locates in him the "son of a mother who becomes a dreamer with her husband and tells her little ones that he conquers all women like no one has ever conquered". That he might be sad, Albert Camus considers unlikely. How the "laughter, the victorious impudence, the lopsided", the profoundly earthly, which the French philosopher diagnoses on him, can deceive! - With D.H. Lawrence ponders the restless: "Where is peace for me? The mystery must be in love with me ... "

What drives the seducer through the bedrooms of the centuries? What hunts the hunter? Who is this man who always means, really?

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