“Brilliant ‘LENZ’. ‘LENZ’ impresses not only through its precision of background description (…), but it is also an artistic synthesis which tackles an important era in Europe: imaginative but not overly intellectual, unsentimental but not sterile, light, harmonious, smart.”

“Literature and Theater. Spectacular “Lenz”.

Brilliant “LENZ. “A star is born”, one could say about Cornelia Rainer, albeit she has already accomplished a lot, directing at the Burgtheater-Vestibül and the Hamburger Thalia Theater.

Cornelia Rainer presents a 100-minute tour de force about the Sturm-und-Drang poet Lenz at the Young Directors Project in Salzburg – with Markus Meyer as a brilliant protagonist.

A wooden roller coaster frames the stage at the Salzburg Republic: “Montagnes Russes” was the name of this amusement park attraction in old times. This is also the name of the group that premiered “Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz” at the Young Directors Project of the Salzburg Festival on Friday evening. The son of a pastor and poet, Lenz (1751–1792) revered Goethe, who dropped him because Lenz did not dress appropriately for court society. Lenz fell in love with Goethe’s friend Friederike Brion, but his passion remained unrequited. Lenz suffered. He is considered a saintly pillar of wild artists; his most famous work is “The Tutor,” adapted by Brecht. Büchner wrote a Novelle about Lenz, in which he talks about can der Realität der nur nach ihrer dass important sich die so heute das Sturm- wurde, die Frage, so über die Grenzen, Mängeln der Vernunft, sterben in der Mainacht in Salzburger.”