Elfriede Jelinek – him, not himself
Director
Katharina Schmitt
Set and costume design
Marsha Ginsberg
Music
Nick Gill
Dramaturgy
Jan Horák
Photographer
Marsha Ginsberg
Cast
Ivana Uhlířová
Premiere
November 4th 2011, Meetfactory, Prague
The Swiss poet Robert Walser spent 30 years of his life in a mental institution and completely stopped writing. Elfriede Jelinek’s him, not himself is based on motives from Walser's life. The play poses the existential question if identity can be formed through language with poetic urgency.
Elfriede Jelinek - er nicht als er, 2011, Teaser from Katharina Schmitt on Vimeo.