Alluring Depth – “Heaven in Pity” by the Otto Falckenberg School

At the same time there would be a guest performance by Markus&Markus in the Werkraum. It's obvious where you'd rather go that evening at the Kammerspiele: To Kammer2 for "Heaven in Pity," a heavy-blooded and at the same time very cheerful evening that Nicola Hümpel has worked out with three students from the Otto Falckenberg School. Among them: the Art Nouveau beauty Julia Windischbauer, the busy Pauline Werner and the cranky Nick Romeo Reimann. They are joined by three musicians, singer Ted Schmitz, closely related to Nick Cave, guitarist Tobis Weber and drummer and sound inventor Philipp Kullen. Great musicians, but Windischbauer sings more beautifully. And Werner louder. Under Hümpel's guidance, the three students set out with songs, a collage of texts and their bodies in search of intoxication, the simple and the complicated, a desert night or a mind-brightening inspiration. "It is always the sensitive and the seekers who confide in the drug." But the drug can be many things. And so "Heaven in Pity" seems more mature than one might expect, wiser. And is strangely beautiful. "Intoxication is a yearning along the edge of a deep darkness."

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