when I first read the story of Parsifal (in the processing of large, now somewhat forgotten youth writer Auguste Lechner whose Books I devoured at that time in series), and they left me a little baffled - baffled by their strange logic, and its atypical hero, this bloodless slightly awkward young knight Perceval, whom fate had the Saviour of the King of the Grail Anfortas determined, but which this unique Chance versiebte smooth. And as if it were not already far enough honor and happiness, even once the Grail, the Grail to have been in sight, get this guilty by clumsy hero, the first leaves once a trail of destruction, in all seriousness, first a detailed instruction, then the possibility of parole, and finally the grace of a second chance. Only with advancing age, I realized that I understood all right. This legend with Cartesian logic can not be solved, rather, it will - the key words have already been taken - for redemption, guilt and grace. The focus is the pure fool who collides with the rigid, courtly world where aufscheint but also humanity, compassion as the supreme value.
In Bern City Theater a stage version of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Middle High German verse romance was announced, worried by the dramatic shooting star Lukas Bärfuss - perhaps the most exciting starting point of this theater season and a reason to immediately to reserve a place in the Vidmarhallen. Since initially ruled a Director incidence the scene: The entire stage was covered with plastic tarpaulins that have swept a dirty broth, and the unfortunate actors and actresses had to after each of her frequent costume changes soon throw in the puddles and in the brown water roll. An excellent metaphor for the earthly vale of tears, certainly, but one that is harmful to their offensive intrusion more than good. But now the play . Bärfuss presents a lean, highly abstracted Percival, who felt after two hours without a break is relatively short. Guilt, Grace, Redemption, of course, come a dramatist of the 21 Century no longer ring the lips. The Christian-mythical superstructure is the matter almost entirely, and in the bottom of Vidmar stage the big piece often takes almost banal trains to - most visibly in King Arthur, a frail little man in the diarrhea-brown jumpsuit and with ridiculous hair who is almost too seems as if he can ever even opens his mouth to apologize. The attention is the human Parzival, the mystery of his being (in order yet again to use the big words). Happy, interested, with big hearts, but to the naive simplicity because of the unworldly Education through his paranoid mother, he breaks into the world, where he unwittingly stumbles and innocent, not only in all the pitfalls, but also suffering and disaster to bring people he meets. And we are fascinated to see him as he develops slowly, piece by piece, something like a worldview, a concept. This is often at first more or less funny, but touching on the second or thoughtful making. A wealth of topics is touched, first and foremost of course the old question of education versus personality, and much is asked very casually in question. The final scene, the re-encounter with the terrible suffering Anfortas is then very banal: that Percival will be King of the Grail, he finally makes the crucial question - all this is only in passing an issue. Will finally clear again: to act to tension to Percivale role is not the point. It is this interpretation of the myth of his being. A convincing Milva Stark brings his innocence, his loneliness and despair with great intensity on the marshy stage.
Technicals: Parsifal, after the verse novel by Luke Bärfuss of Wolfram von Eschenbach, is at the City Theatre twice more on the program. The play is a success, and several performances were sold out - who cares , should be hurry.
Inspired by the idea I visited the nearest bookstore to browse in the original, but have 1200 pages and the rather functional prose translation in Reclam bilingual edition discourages me a little. Maybe I should start with Reclam edition selection, or the Versübersetzung of Simrock . The alternative: brush up my Middle High German a little and read the original, for example, in the Bibliotheca Augustana .
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