The “madness” has many appearances with the young pathologist Georg Büchner. The poet Lenz, who, like Jesus, wants to bring a dead woman back to life, is just as confused as the soldier Franz Woyzeck, who stabs his beloved out of jealousy; but also some of the death row inmates in “Danton” or King Peter in “Leonce and Lena” are pretty off track. At the end of Glossy Pain’s original, clever “Woyzeck” rendition theatre Mühlheim an der Ruhr raises the casual question of whether mitigating circumstances can be applied to the jealous murderer. There is just as little answer as femicide as such is made visible in the staging.
