The German State Theatre Timisoara invites the audience on Friday, 17 March 2023, starting at 7.30 pm, to the performance The God Kurt, directed by Alexander Hausvater, one of the most renowned contemporary Romanian directors.

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The action takes place a few months before the end of World War II in a German concentration camp in occupied Poland: The camp commandant wants to exemplify his ideas about a society without ethical concepts in which the feeling of guilt becomes a hindrance overtaken by history and therefore useless. To this end he uses Sophocles' play 'Oedipus the King'. On his orders, the tragedy written by the classical author will not only be acted out but even "lived" by the camp inmates. Commandant Kurt, representative of a criminal, inhuman and cynical regime, takes on the role of the ancient gods. A Jewish prisoner, the commander's childhood friend, is condemned to kill his father and impregnate his own mother.

Alberto Moravia, pseudonym of Alberto Pincherle (1907 - 1990), journalist, novelist and essayist, known for his fictional portraits of alienation and loveless sexuality, was a leading figure in Italian literature in the 20th century. HE WAS A MAJOR FIGURE IN 20TH CENTURY ITALIAN LITERATURE. The tragedy God Kurt, consisting of a prologue and two acts, set in 1944 in a Nazi concentration camp in Poland, was first performed in 1968 and directed by Antonio Calenda a year later in 1969.

Alexander Hausvater was born in Bucharest, from where he emigrated with his parents to Israel in 1959. He studied in Tel Aviv and Dublin and has staged successful productions on numerous stages at home and abroad. Part of his life was spent in Canada, where he founded Montréal Theatre Lab, an experimental theatre company. At the German State Theatre in Timișoara he is currently in his fourth production after King Cymbelin (2004), Don Carlos (2011) and Judgement (2012). Besides his extensive directing activity, Alexander Hausvater has taught at acting faculties in Montreal, Michigan, Tel Aviv, Moscow and Ottawa.

The cast includes actors Franz Kattesch, Harald Weisz, Silvia Török, Rareș Hontzu, Ida Jarcsek-Gaza, Daniel Ghidel, Tatiana Sessler-Toami, Aljoscha Cobeț, Dana Borteanu, Isa Berger, Radu Brănici, Oana Vidoni, as well as Sergiu Vernica and Jaqueline Kohl, students of the German acting department of the Faculty of Theatre and Music.

Alexander Hausvater is joined in the creative team by Zsolt Fehervari (set), Ioana Smara Popescu (costumes), Dan Simion (music) and Sebastian Hamburger (video).