Bavaria: Play in Nuremberg brings death to the stage

Everyone has to die once.

Bavaria: Play in Nuremberg brings death to the stage

Everyone has to die once. A play in Nuremberg shows that it is worth dealing with it beforehand.

Nuremberg (dpa / lby) - Nobody likes to think about dying and death. A play in Nuremberg wants to break the silence - and show that the topic can also be entertaining. "It's about changing perspective, about acceptance and allowing," says author and director Wenzel Winzer. "Humour is an important tool." Just because you know you're going to die soon doesn't mean you can't laugh anymore.

Winzer gained this experience himself during his research for the play "Exit - Dying for Beginners", which will premiere on Friday at the Staatstheater. He spoke to the terminally ill, employees of palliative care units, pastors and funeral directors. Winzer says he was very nervous, especially during the first interviews with those who were about to die. "It was touching, but also incredibly beautiful. There is great wisdom and love for life in the interviews."

In collages from the interview texts and game scenes, four actors approach all facets of dying and death. The figure of Death himself also appears. "To make the fear of death tangible and to question it," explains Winzer. In addition, grief is present as a monster: "The grief will change over time. It will be smaller, but will remain present."

Other theaters in Germany also deal with death. In the play "Im Tod - in my time of dying" at the Theaterhaus Jena, two friends talk about various aspects of death, such as the last great journey, the needs of the dying and rituals of saying goodbye and mourning, as the website says. In the play "Fang den Tod", the Theater für Niedersachsen prepares the subject for children and young people as a detective story in which Death is personally interviewed in a television program.