Lars Eidinger is considered one of the most important actors of his generation. On 15.05.2027
he comes to Zurich with love poems by the poet Thomas Brasch. Congenially accompanied by
George Kranz on drums, Lars Eidinger reads from Brasch's collection of poems. The work of the
2001, which Lars Eidinger is now presenting, is
diverse: witty verse, humorous, ironic poems and always love. Every
word finds the power to tell a story.
Tickets for the readings with Lars Eidinger and Georg Kranz are now available at ticketcorner.ch
"I love you can be emphasized / in three different ways / How do you say the sentence without
emphasis?" For Thomas Brasch, love is an attitude that refuses to be defined. An
attitude that fearfully and longingly exposes its dreams to reality and always places the possible
into the horizon of the impossible. His poetic passion hopes and despairs,
trusts and deceives, praises and destroys. Eidinger not only reads love poems by Thomas
Brasch - he immerses himself in them.
Brasch loved Heine, Brecht and Heiner Müller and Eidinger, probably the most talented
actor of his generation loves Brasch. You can feel that immediately in this reading. The
despair of the present, the love that makes it bearable, Eidinger brings precisely and with
feeling on stage. He bows to Brasch in poetry.
The feelings of the text, which are brought out so close to touch, are brilliantly supported musically by
supported by George Kranz. On stage, Eidinger uses the reduction of his
physical radius of action, Kranz takes this out for himself. He integrates the dimensions of the stage
impressively into his performance. The interplay between Eidinger-Kranz-Brasch makes this evening
a stage work of an extraordinary kind.
Press release
"When asked how he lives his art, Eidinger often quotes Thomas Brasch, one of his
life authors: "MY CAREER IS NOT TO HIDE MYSELF, but to discover myself publicly,
To find myself by losing myself, ..." Brasch and Eidinger seem to be in the same
paradoxical situation: they face the public with full risk, with their sights open, with their wounds and
their sad anger to the public." Süddeutsche Zeitung (2025).
About George Kranz:
George Kranz, born in 1956, was the drummer in the Berlin band Zeitgeist from 1980-83,
he worked with Ulla Meinecke. In 1983 Kranz achieved fame with his solo single "Trommeltanz" or
also "Din Daa Daa" international fame. Further solo albums followed, including "Move it!"
(1989) and "Sticky Druisin'" (1995). In addition, music for film and television. Since
"Alles Plastik" (director: Wolfgang Kolneder, 1980) regular work at the Grips Theater - as
musician in "Linie 1" (directed by Wolfgang Kolneder, 1986) and as lyricist, composer and
producer. He also worked as an actor, including in the film "Magic Sticks" (1987), for which he
also wrote the title song of the same name, and under the direction of Thomas Brasch in "Der
Passenger - Welcome to Germany" (1988). Since then, he has written theater and film scores and
worked with Third World, The Roots, the Ying Yang Twins, the Phenix Horns and many others.
