Krystian Lupa

Author Readings

Photo: Laura Vanseviciene

Sun, 9 Nov20:00

HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU3)

Tempelhofer Ufer 10, 10963

Pre-Sale start 1 October

Krystian Lupa - author, reader

In cooperation with HAU Hebbel am Ufer

Every author — whoever they are — has a unique relationship with their own text. They understand it differently from how it might be heard or interpreted by an actor, a director, or any outside reader. In 2025, the Voices Berlin Festival has chosen a new format for its play readings: every piece will be performed by its author.

Krystian Lupa "The Monastery of Listeners"

The legendary Polish director draws on his own diary entries, written while working on his early novel "The Monastery of Listeners". Inspired by Thomas Mann’s "The Magic Mountain", Lupa’s early experiments now resonate uncannily with the apocalyptic undertones of our time.

"I don’t feel Polish, just as Thomas Bernhard, at the end of his life, suffered from a persistent need to escape the place where he had to be Austrian". — Krystian Lupa.

Contributors

krystian lupa

theater director, playwright

Krystian Lupa is a Polish theater director, set designer, playwright, translator and pedagogue. He has been called "the greatest living European theatre director". Lupa is known to translate and adapt the texts which he stages, at the same time designing the scenery and directing these productions. During his career he made a lot of notable productions based on texts of Robert Musil, Thomas Bernhard, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Maxim Gorky or Witold Gombrowicz.

Krystian Lupa is the recipient of many national and international honours including the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (2001), Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2002), and the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2017).

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