Travel Tip: Pop Culture and Cinema in Belgium
Claus Peymann kauft sich eine Hose und geht mit mir essen

Claus Peymann kauft sich eine Hose und geht mit mir essen

Thomas Bernhard, text
Karl-Ernst Herrmann, set design

with Maria Happel, Hermann Beil, Claus Peymann
Berliner Ensemble

A leading light of Vienna's Burgtheater from 1986 to 1999, the director of the Berliner Ensemble, Claus Peymann, plays himself in this play by Thomas Bernhard. The Austrian playwright, who has often denounced his country's Nazi past and nationalist tendencies, has written one of his ambiguous plays for his colleague, with the amusing title Claus Peymann kauft sich eine Hose und geht mit mir essen (Claus Peymann buys himself a pair of trousers and goes for something to eat with me). The  funny text includes numerous references to recent Austrian history and culture.

Palais des Beaux-Arts
Rue Ravenstein 23
1000 Brussels