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Faust

"In photography, as elsewhere, the moment is both its own question and its answer." Henri Carter-Bresson

"What am I myself? What did I do? I collected and used everything that came to my mind, my ears, my senses. Thousands of individuals have contributed to my works, they all came and brought me their thoughts, their skills, their experiences; so I often reap what others have sown. My life's work is that of a collective being, and this work bears the name of Goethe." (Goethe 1832, a few weeks before his death)

The collective being Goethe accommodates all the multiplicity of thoughts and experiences in his two-part opus magnum FAUST. Throughout his life, from youth to old age, he worked on the drama, which he called the only one of his works "tragedy". It stands there in over 12,000 verses, enigmatic and bright, erratic and epic in scope – a seemingly endless succession of scenes, images, figures, reflections. What holds this tragedy together at its core?
There is Faust, the eternally restless, who sees the world as prey, his fellow human beings as a maneuvering mass and time as a pledge. There is Mephisto, the counter-principle literally in the shadow of Faust. There is Margarete, Gretchen, the innocent and beautiful in the face of perdition. What images do we form of them, what voices speak through them?
And there's the light coming through all the cracks in fate. Goethe gives precise instructions as to the lighting - most of the tragedy takes place in the dark of night and dim twilight. This darkness is repeatedly torn apart by fire, signs of light, sunrises - like the flash of a photograph that illuminates and tries to capture the present. wait a minute. In 1928, Russian photographer Alexander Rodchenko described photography as “a struggle between eternity and the moment. With their appearance, there can no longer be a general, unchanging image. A human being is not just a unit, he is multifaceted and dialectical.”

"We have life in the colored reflection." Kay Voges stages FAUST as precisely this struggle between eternity and the moment - and transforms the stage space of the Volkstheater into a light room and a dark room in equal measure.

Subject to change.
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Faust