Monday, 12/2/2024
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Lessings Passion
or "I also wanted to have it as good as other people"

They wrote nearly two hundred letters to each other in the seven years leading up to their marriage. They hardly saw each other during this time. Lessing had just moved to Wolfenbüttel as a court librarian. Eva König had to settle her financial affairs after the death of her husband and sell his silk and wallpaper factories in Vienna. They were left with only correspondence, which dealt with lottery and debts, theater and daily grievances, or the eternal misadventures with carriages and horses. Between the lines, a deep love story slowly unfolds. Eva König is an equal correspondent to Lessing and, according to Walter Jens, one of the few great letter writers in Enlightenment Germany. The shared happiness of the two is destined to be short-lived.
Director Marcel Keller and well-known actors Walter Sittler and Barbara Falter bring us the correspondence of a completely impossible love that still moves us deeply after more than two hundred years.

Lessing and Eva König – a love story in letters
Staged reading with Barbara Falter and Walter Sittler
Director: Marcel Keller
Dramaturgy: Sonja Anders

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