Oh, when things are and yet aren't!

wozzeck_woyzeck_reloaded does not tell a narrative story, yet stories develop, tight images and atmospheres. A relational structure of dependencies is shown in which the three protagonists embody Wozzeck, Marie, the drum major, the captain and the doctor, fast and constantly changing.

Each small cog in the wheel needs the others in order to keep up self-preservation and demontration of its own power: Maria needs Wozzeck; or rather Marie is source and basis of life for Wozzeck himself; Marie does not love the drum major with whom she is cheating on Wozzeck, but she loves his desire; he anon is driven by his lust for Marie; the doctor is running specious experiments with Wozzeck lyingly disguised as scientific expermient; and the captain dominated by the want of power steps downward – towards the weakest link in the chain.

Finally everyone depends on everyone, if one cog would fall off the wheel change was possible. All in all a very present scenario that could stereotyped fit on many constellations of human togetherness.

In terms of music the piece is carried by a compiled soundtrack in which moments of Alban Berg´s opera sound again and again, mostly in the form of „Three fragments of Wozzeck for soprano, orchestra and children´s voices ad. Libitum“, that was performed one year before the opera´s premiere.