Zaratustra

Elfriede Jelinek calls Einar Schleef (1944-2001) one of the two geniuses of contempory Germany. "In the West is Fassbinder, and in the East, Schleef." Director, novelist and playwright, he is little known in France. Krystian Lupa, a connaisseur of German literature, has drawn an amazing production from Schleef's work, again demonstrating his numerous talents as a director, costume designer, sculpture, scenographer and (for the first time) video director. With this new production, six months after an Enchanted Flute that he will direct for the Festival d'Aix in 2006, Lupa returns for his sixth time to the theater which introduced him to France.