Leben im Liegen

Christiane Rösinger / HAU

Christiane Rösinger stays in bed: with new and familiar songs, newly arranged for orchestra, she devotes herself to pausing and not functioning, propagating a way of life beyond the constraints of daily overload.In her new HAU production, Christiane Rösinger – an Oblomov follower and long-standing expert on “life lying down” – will simply stay in bed this time and devote herself to pausing and not functioning. As a happy denier, she and her intergenerational “bed guests” take a look at our burnout society in order to promote a way of life beyond the constraints of daily overload.To this end, the musician and director can draw on her extensive collection of texts and music from the last 35 years, with which she has more to say than ever about self-determined lying down in ‘do your own thing’ capitalism.The songs are being rearranged for a small orchestra for the first time in collaboration with musician and composer Albrecht Schrader in order to focus on the big, sometimes melancholic questions of life. With an ensemble of old and new companions, the theatre becomes a space for community, not to promote inaction, but to find out how we might still be able to resist the fatigue of the present moment together.

approx. 95 mins.

Artists/Collaborators: Christiane Rösinger (Text, Komposition, Regie), Greta Călinescu (Co-Regie), Stella Nikisch (Künstlerische Mitarbeit Regie), Albrecht Schrader (Musikalische Leitung, Arrangements), Sila Davulcu (Performance), Claudia Fierke (Performance), Doreen Kutzke (Performance), Minh Duc Pham (Performance), Christiane Rösinger (Performance), Gideon Rösinger (Performance), Andreas Schwarz (Performance), Marleen Dahms (Das Orchester der Müdigkeit), Sebastian Gieck (Das Orchester der Müdigkeit), Jannis Gottschalk (Das Orchester der Müdigkeit), Kristina Koropecki (Das Orchester der Müdigkeit), Izzy Ment (Das Orchester der Müdigkeit), Jean-Louise Parker (Das Orchester der Müdigkeit), Albrecht Schrader (Das Orchester der Müdigkeit), Liv Solveig (Das Orchester der Müdigkeit), Lutz Streun (Das Orchester der Müdigkeit), Marie Tjong-Ayong (Das Orchester der Müdigkeit), Barbara Lenartz (Bühne), Svenja Gassen (Kostüm), Juli Schulz (Maske), Kathrin Krottenthaler (Video und Live-Kamera), Hendrik Borowski (Lichtdesign), Aenne Quiñones (Dramaturgie), Brigitte Cuvelier (Choreografie), Gabi Bartels (Bühne) (Künstlerische Mitarbeit), Ellias Hampe (Dramaturgie/Produktion) (Künstlerische Mitarbeit), Aleix Ilusa (Kostüm) (Künstlerische Mitarbeit), Rosina Zeus (Bühne) (Künstlerische Mitarbeit), Lyz Pfister (Panthea) (Übersetzung), Thorsten Hoppe (Ton und Sounddesign), Torsten Schwarzbach (HAU) (Ton und Sounddesign), Amina Nouns (HAU) (Technische Leitung), Chiara Galesi (HAU) (Produktionsleitung), Katrin Meyberg (Panthea) (Einrichtung und Operating Übertitel), Yvonne Wadewitz (Pole-Dance-Training)

Strobe lights and fog are used during the performance.Topics such as illness, depression, neurodiversity, neurodivergence, ableism, ageism, and adultism are addressed in a humorous and sarcastic manner.

Next date:

• Date Wednesday, 06/May/2026 20:00 (2 more dates)
• Venue HAU Hebbel am Ufer - HAU1
• Address Stresemannstraße 29 A, 10963 Berlin-Kreuzberg
• Price from €20.00

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