Die Hamletmaschine

Galleria Fumagalli presents the video of the performance that celebrated the 20th anniversary of Heiner Müller’s death, by J. Kounellis and T. Terzopoulos.

Jannis Kounellis, Theodoros Terzopoulos, Die Hamletmaschine by Heiner Müller, Il Piccolo Teatro d’Europa, 2015
Galleria Fumagalli, presents the video of the performance Jannis Kounellis, Theodoros Terzopoulos. Die Hamletmaschine by Heiner Müller presented at the Il Piccolo Teatro d’Europa theatre in 2015 in Milan for the twentieth anniversary of the death of the German dramatist Heiner Müller. 
Jannis Kounellis, Theodoros Terzopoulos, Die Hamletmaschine by Heiner Müller, Il Piccolo Teatro d’Europa, 2015
Jannis Kounellis, Theodoros Terzopoulos, Die Hamletmaschine by Heiner Müller, Il Piccolo Teatro d’Europa, 2015
Jannis and Heiner, both friends and collaborators of the German playwright and poet, worked together on a theater project to pay homage to the figure and work of what was defined, in the nineties, “the greatest living playwright”. Müller was one of the most significant authors of the postwar German theater and has always had a solid relationship with visual arts.
Jannis Kounellis, Theodoros Terzopoulos, Die Hamletmaschine by Heiner Müller, Il Piccolo Teatro d’Europa, 2015
Jannis Kounellis, Theodoros Terzopoulos, Die Hamletmaschine by Heiner Müller, Il Piccolo Teatro d’Europa, 2015
Die Hamletmaschine is a postmodern drama loosely based on the Hamlet of William Shakespeare. Peculiar of the work is the friction of the poetic word with the story, divided into five sequences of monologues in which the protagonist leaves his theatrical role to reflect on his being an actor. The interpreter of Hamlet finds himself morbidly tied to his character, struggling with his passions and his own ghosts. His is a rambling soliloquy in which are laid bare, on one hand, the abandon of any utopian impulse and, secondly, the paradoxes of the modern intellectual, torn between the inability to change the state of things and the will to turn into a machine at the service of the power.

until 20 December 2016
Jannis Kounellis, Theodoros Terzopoulos
Die Hamletmaschine by Heiner Müller

curated by Annamaria Maggi and Alexandra Papadopoulos


Galleria Fumagalli
via Bonaventura Cavalieri 6, Milan

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