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Synopsis
Eduard auf dem Seil is the last part of a triptych of legends (with The Pied Piper and Der Schimmelreiter).
Scenes from the life of the German romantic poet Eduard Mörike, especially “Peregrina
trauma” (Mörike’s illicit love for a waitress) are interlaced with motifs and poems from
Mörike’s “Historie der schönen Lau” from the “Stuttgarter Hutzelmännchen”. The boundaries
between reality and art become blurred, but the poet’s sense of loneliness is the overriding
theme of the work.
Eduard auf dem Seil
02.12.1999 Ulmer Theater
What interested me most in Eduard Mörike‘s story of the ‚Beautiful Lau‘ was a contrast: On the
one hand, there is the real life situation of the poet who lives in a world of upheaval, revolutions,
war, and suppression and is on the verge of giving up in desperation. On the other hand, there is
the story he tells to get rid of his depressions. And this is a story about the laughter of the ‚Beautiful
Lau‘ only at first glance; on closer reading, it is also a story by which Mörike saves himself from
desperation – a serious comedy, very quiet, yet very wild, crudely funny and full of melancholy.
(Wilfried Hiller)
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