Attention, language attack! – The author and director René Pollesch was God in the philosophical jungle camp
Switzerland was his magical moment, Lucerne and Zurich were his places of work. With the death of the director of the Berliner Volksbühne, René Pollesch, who died on Monday at the age of 61, the art world has lost a reference figure.
René Pollesch, director of the Berliner Volksbühne and theater innovator, died of a heart attack on Monday at the age of 61.
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René Pollesch is dead. The loss is enormous. He is missing someone who transformed the theater, this old-fashioned monstrance, into a party of talking to one another. His evenings had a language of their own and seemed as light as a boulevard. Laughing in the theater, even laughing above your own level, when was the last time that happened? At Kim de l’Horizon recently. But even there, the lightness is drenched in melancholy. Not so with René Pollesch, in Zurich, in Berlin, there was neighing, filming, posting in the hall, out of pure joy in intelligence. And not your own.