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Serotonin
Date details
- Date Wednesday, 13/May/2026 17:00 (4 more dates)
- Venue Zeiss-Großplanetarium
- Address Prenzlauer Allee 80, 10405 Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
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Serotonin
Theatertreffen 2026 | 10 remarkable productions
Serotonin – Ein Mann in weißer Kleidung sitzt mit überschlagenen Beinen auf einer weißen Bank in einem weißen Kubus
© Thomas M. Jauk
based on the novel Sérotonine by Michel Houellebecq
German translation by Stephan Kleiner
Adapted for the stage by Sebastian Hartmann
Hans Otto Theater Potsdam
Premiere: 13.12.2025
Given a uncompromising and minimalist production by Sebastian Hartmann, in Serotonin Guido Lambrecht displays knife-sharp precision in his portrayal of a man who returns to key moments in his life and interweaves his own personal crisis with that of Western society.
Florent-Claude Labrouste has steered his life into a dead end. Battered by failed relationships, humiliated by the impotence caused by anti-depressants, fed up with his life and full of contempt for himself and the world around him, he burns all his bridges. He is merciless in taking stock – on the basis, among other things, of the women in his life. Michel Houellebecq’s novel Serotonin is centred around a deeply frustrated, sad and mournful character. Sebastian Hartmann chooses a decisive and radical approach to this material: nothing distracts from the magnificent storytelling of Guido Lambrecht, whose nuanced, precise and restrained acting lends a voice and body to a man who is falling apart in this impressive solo. Something in between an installation, performance art and a theatre performance, Serotonin is a fascinatingly challenging road movie of inertia and an invitation to surrender oneself to the events on stage.
Jury Statement
“Sebastian Hartmann has never presented such a radically reduced and purist production. His stage adaptation of Michel Houellebecq’s novel Sérotonine is a masterpiece of theatrical minimalism: it needs no more than a white box containing just a white wooden bench, a single spotlight and, of course, Guido Lambrecht. Lambrecht spends a good five hours lingering in this space whose whiteness seems to expunge anything else, laying before us the messed-up life of Houellebecq’s first person narrator Florent-Claude Labrouste. This merciless account of a failed man is repeatedly interrupted by a second, intra-German life story, that broadens and comments on Labrouste’s toxic view of the world. Meanwhile Lambrecht’s acting, as reticent as it is precise, is a minor theatrical sensation. It allows us to see inside one man’s gaping chasms and find the core of the anti-modern thinking so virulent right now.”
– Sascha Westphal for the Theatertreffen-jury
Artistic Team
Sebastian Hartmann – Direction and Stage
Lothar Baumgarte – Lighting Design
Adriana Peretzki – Costume Design
Christopher Hanf – Dramaturgy
Cast
Guido Lambrecht
German translation by Stephan Kleiner
Adapted for the stage by Sebastian Hartmann
Hans Otto Theater Potsdam
Premiere: 13.12.2025
Given a uncompromising and minimalist production by Sebastian Hartmann, in Serotonin Guido Lambrecht displays knife-sharp precision in his portrayal of a man who returns to key moments in his life and interweaves his own personal crisis with that of Western society.
Florent-Claude Labrouste has steered his life into a dead end. Battered by failed relationships, humiliated by the impotence caused by anti-depressants, fed up with his life and full of contempt for himself and the world around him, he burns all his bridges. He is merciless in taking stock – on the basis, among other things, of the women in his life. Michel Houellebecq’s novel Serotonin is centred around a deeply frustrated, sad and mournful character. Sebastian Hartmann chooses a decisive and radical approach to this material: nothing distracts from the magnificent storytelling of Guido Lambrecht, whose nuanced, precise and restrained acting lends a voice and body to a man who is falling apart in this impressive solo. Something in between an installation, performance art and a theatre performance, Serotonin is a fascinatingly challenging road movie of inertia and an invitation to surrender oneself to the events on stage.
Jury Statement
“Sebastian Hartmann has never presented such a radically reduced and purist production. His stage adaptation of Michel Houellebecq’s novel Sérotonine is a masterpiece of theatrical minimalism: it needs no more than a white box containing just a white wooden bench, a single spotlight and, of course, Guido Lambrecht. Lambrecht spends a good five hours lingering in this space whose whiteness seems to expunge anything else, laying before us the messed-up life of Houellebecq’s first person narrator Florent-Claude Labrouste. This merciless account of a failed man is repeatedly interrupted by a second, intra-German life story, that broadens and comments on Labrouste’s toxic view of the world. Meanwhile Lambrecht’s acting, as reticent as it is precise, is a minor theatrical sensation. It allows us to see inside one man’s gaping chasms and find the core of the anti-modern thinking so virulent right now.”
– Sascha Westphal for the Theatertreffen-jury
Artistic Team
Sebastian Hartmann – Direction and Stage
Lothar Baumgarte – Lighting Design
Adriana Peretzki – Costume Design
Christopher Hanf – Dramaturgy
Cast
Guido Lambrecht
Thanks to Lukas Roediger for his advice on psychiatric matters.
Performance rights: © DuMont, Köln. Performance rights represented by schaefersphilippen™,Theater und Medien GbR, Cologne
Audience Talk
on Sunday, 10.5.2026 after the performance
There are indications of sensitive and/or health-relevant content.
Performance rights: © DuMont, Köln. Performance rights represented by schaefersphilippen™,Theater und Medien GbR, Cologne
Audience Talk
on Sunday, 10.5.2026 after the performance
There are indications of sensitive and/or health-relevant content.
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