Poliglocia

Diesen Freitag bin ich übrigens wieder bei einer Aufführung der kultigen Autorin Caroline Edda Königstitte dabei. Ich stelle nicht einen, sondern zwei grottige Frauenhelden aus träschigen und erotischen Groschenromanen dar. Caro hat sich schon länger mit Fifty Shades of Grey und ähnlichen Werken tiefsinnig literarisch auseinandergesetzt. Nach einer Startphase, in der sie erlernte, wie man den Brechreiz zurückhält, hat sie sich den dreh angeeignet, wie sich der Schmalz produzieren lässt, und daraus abstruse Szenen mit Orks und Pickupartistinnen geschmiedet. Die Varietéshow "Artsy Fartsy Ficki Facki" zeigte letztes Jahr aus mehreren Perspektiven, wie die Kommerzialisierung von Sex und Romance weiter degeneriert. Ich habe in den alternativen Bochumer Theaterkreisen schon mehrere Arbeiten gesehen, die Erotik und Pornographie problematisieren. Stücke sind ohne hin längst nicht mehr dadurch skandalös, das sie Sex graphisch auf die Bühne stellen, doch jetzt sind wir endlich im...

Earlier this year, I wrote an adaptation of the autobiography of the Nun Ensign, "La leyenda de la monja alférez". Catalina de Erauso escaped the convent her family had put her into, in order to sail to 16th century colonial South America, where she became a legendary cross dressing swashbuckler. Particular are not only her often retold quarrels, brutal murders, witty escapes and spicy love affairs - these were common material to baroque tales. But Erauso decided to write her own tale, her own truth - his own truth, if one is to be true to the narration. A truth that breaks the narrative of a repentant sinner, so beloved in Catholic fancy then and now, and reaffirms transition and change as a reality. History, in this case, was for me a vehicle to show the weight of reality, even if the tale is one of comedy, irony and multilayered farce. History is composed of accountable instances of rewriting, but the fact that it has been written down attests for the existence of the...

To begin to imagine the impact of Watchmen on a die-hard superhero comics fan like me, visualize a train-wreck taking place in twelve monthly installments. I may not have recognized Watchmen as a deconstruction of the hero, but certainly I realized (with a combination of horror and fascination known to rubberneckers everywhere) that there my precious heroes were being shattered before my very eyes, taken apart from the inside-out, in the pages of the medium that had always loved and cared for them, and in a style that demonstrated an obvious mastery of the medium that it now set out to implode. Thomson, Iain: "Deconstructing the Hero". In: . Superheroes and Philosophy . Open Court, Chicago 2008, P. 102. As for me, I never experienced superheroes as part of my childhood. When I was around 7 years old, everybody was crazy about "Batman Returns", but my parents wouldn't take me to watch it because it was too dark for a kid. In a way, they were right. I must ha...