Schlußchor

In the beginning stands ("we are the chorus") the crowd: 15 women and men, gathered together for a group picture. Ineptly, a photographer is directing them, and the fragments of conversation reveal more and more of their aggravation by his behavior, until suddenly just a heap of clothes is all that is left of him. He may have missed the right moment for the shot, but at least he was the only one to perceive the group as a group. The second act describes another deadly observation: the architect Lorens sees Delia, his employer, naked, taking a bath. Infatuated rather by the conversation he has with her about it than by what he saw, he waits in vain to be accepted as her lover. At a party in her house he finally shoots himself in front of a large mirror. The third act takes place in a restaurant in West Berlin directly after the coming down of the wall. Two East Germans wander in and, as if in a TV show give banal answers to uninspired questions. In addition to that, one of the people present, Anita von Schastorf, seems to be living in another time: while the others dash out to be part of the historic event, she reminisces about old monarchist traditions... Schlusschor is a course for seeing and oversights where the word "Germany" resonates as a leitmotiv, and which demonstrates how history transforms into discourse as it happens.