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Soon after the young Werther settles in the village of Wahlheim, right in the spring, right in nature, he meets Lotte. On a night of a ball, interrupted by thunderstorms, he falls in love with her, dancing and quoting Klopstock. Yet, to Werther's great misfortune, Lotte is already engaged to the very honorable Albert, whom she promised to marry on her mother’s deathbed. He befriends him while continuing to worship Lotte as a saint in unrequited love. However, when Werther eventually comes too close to her in his passion after all that time of restraint, she withdraws from him. Werther now sees no other escape for himself but death, having betrayed his friend as well.

When Goethe's epistolary novel was published in 1774, it became a bestseller in a very short time, making its author more famous than he would have liked. Goethe wrote in Dichtung und Wahrheit: "The impact of the little book was great, indeed enormous." Some critics accused him of inciting suicide through the work. The question of responsibility for one's own life is posed in Werther with tragic urgency.

Director … Eike Hannemann
Stage & Costumes … Birgit Stoessel

Trailer: © Florian Reichart

Duration 1 hour and 25 minutes, no intermission

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