“Kasimir and Karoline” press the tube in the Burgtheater – Theater

The Master of Silence, the playwright Ödön von Horváth (1901-1938) is generally considered to be, is in the latest production of his all-time favourite Casimir and Caroline nothing to feel at the Burgtheater. Okay, we’re at the Oktoberfest, so it can get loud – away from the toilet facilities. But director Mateja Koležnik goes one step further. She places the folk play from 1932, which deals with the idea of ​​exploiting love, right next to an emergency room: howling sirens, loudspeaker announcements, hectic crowds of stretchers.