Empusion
Theatre

By Olga Tokarczuk
In a dramatisation by Lucien Haug

Premiere 30.04.2025

  • Szene aus Empusion
  • Szene aus Empusion
  • Szene aus Empusion

  • Basel premiere of the German-language premiere
  • Interesting for people aged 14+
  • With Polish surtitles

A redeeming tale of horror

In Göbersdorf in Silesia, healing methods were developed that later brought Davos worldwide fame. Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, sets a horror story in Göbersdorf. The village is shrouded in a terrible secret. As in Mann's ‹Zauberberg›, a group of gentlemen meet for intellectual walks in the mountain air. While they discuss misogynistic theories by Darwin, Freud and Nietzsche, every year a young man dies in the nearby forest. After ‹Onkel Wanja› and ‹Antigone›, Basel author Lucien Haug is dramatising a novel for Theater Basel for the first time. Antú Romero Nunes directs this symposium, to which the Empusen invite you.

A co-production with the Lausitz Festival and Schauspiel Köln, in collaboration with Staatstheater Cottbus

Together with the dramaturgy department, the Basel Kulturhaus Bider & Tanner has been curating the book table for our plays for many years. Now this selection of books, CDs, DVDs, catalogues and sheet music is available at any time in the online shop. It's worth browsing regularly.

Book table

Mediathek

Further works by Antú Romero Nunes