Residencies

• 25.02 > 28.02.2026

Paul lost both his parents in the con­cen­tra­ti­on camps; Ingeborg is the daugh­ter of a Nazi. In post­war Vienna, they fall in love, then lose touch, wan­der through Europe, and each emer­ges as the poe­tic voi­ce of a gene­ra­ti­on. Meanwhile, they wri­te let­ters to each other throug­hout their lives. These let­ters tell the sto­ry of a dra­ma­tic love, of a Europe rife with trau­ma and guilt, and of two poets who seek in lan­gu­a­ge a way out of the bur­den of the past. What words can they find to brid­ge the dis­tan­ce bet­ween them?

The com­pel­ling and enig­ma­tic cor­res­pon­den­ce bet­ween Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan ser­ves as the star­ting point for the new per­for­man­ce by Zephyr Brüggen and David Roos. Together with musi­cian Timon Persoon, they explo­re what Paul and Ingeborg have to tell us in the year 2026.

De gedroom­den pre­mie­red on March 13, 2026, at Theater Frascati in Amsterdam. More infor­ma­ti­on can be found on his web­si­te.