Thorsten Lensing:
Karamasow
Karamasow
The Brothers Karamasov is a novel about three brothers and their father, about children, animals and a murder - and about belief in a world in which questions of faith are simultaneously foreign and doubted. A thundering thousand page novel about the humor, and the unattainable in life. It is a novel almost as challenging as life itself. All the characters are drawn into situations and relationships that they can’t even handle themselves. They slowly break free and become that what they are: complicated, needy and surprised.
WITH Sebastian Blomberg, André Jung, Ursina Lardi, Horst Mendroch, Ernst Stötzner, Rik van Uffelen, Devid Striesow DIRECTION Thorsten Lensing STAGE DESIGN Johannes Schütz COSTUMES Anette Guther TEXT EDITING Thorsten Lensing in collaboration with Dirk Pilz COMPANY MANAGEMENT Eva-Karen Tittmann TECHNICS Eugen Böhmer ASSISTANCE TECHNICS Dirk Lutz
ASSISTANCE DIRECTION Benjamin Eggers, Lucie Grünbeck ASSISTENCE COSTUMES Nele Ellegiers, Irina Balzer (Touring) ASSISTENCE STAGE DESIGN, PROPS Sugiura Mitsuru
Produced by Thorsten Lensing in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE, Kampnagel Hamburg, Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Schauspiel Stuttgart, HELLERAU Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden and TAK Theater Liechtenstein. Funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds and by the city of Münster. media partner: Kulturradio vom rbb
photo © Arwed Messmer
THORSTEN LENSING has been working as a freelance director since the mid-1990s. Since then he has produced and directed 15 theater performances. His productions are created as freelance productions in co-production with, for example, the Schauspielhaus Zurich, Schauspiel Stuttgart, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Berliner Festspiele, Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, Sophiensæle in Berlin, Theater im Pumpenhaus in Münster, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Kampnagel Hamburg, deSingel in Antwerp and Volksbühne Berlin. Lensing's productions always feature top-class casts. He works with Ursina Lardi, Devid Striesow, André Jung, Josef Ostendorf, Viviane de Muynck, Ernst Stötzner, Lars Rudolph, Peter Kern, Sebastian Blomberg, Maria Hofstätter, Miriam Goldschmidt, Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Charly Hübner and Peter Kurth, among others, as well as with musicians Jean-Paul Bourelly, Phil Minton and Willi Kellers, cultural journalist Dirk Pilz and set designer Johannes Schütz. After the successful novel adaptations of Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (Friedrich Luft Prize for Best Berlin Performance in 2014) and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (Berlin Theatertreffen 2019), Thorsten Lensing has written his first very own play for the theater with Verrückt nach Trost.
