Ruhm

Fame

(Ruhm)

Adapted by Erik Schäffler

Deutsch
Cast

2F / 3M

A man buys a mobile phone and starts receiving calls intended for someone else, and after a brief moment of hesitation, he begins to play around with the other’s identity. From one day to the next, a famous actor no longer receives any calls, as if someone had usurped his life. A writer takes two trips in the company of a woman, whose biggest nightmare is to be featured in one of his stories; while a deranged Internet blogger desires nothing more than to be the hero in a novel. A new-age guru with a world wide following loses his composure, of all things, when he is confronted by a mother superior looking for help; an author of crime novels goes missing on her voyage across central Asia; an old lady, facing death, quarrels with the author who invented her; and a department manager at a giant wireless company loses his mind and job because of his double-life between to wives.

Nine episodes, which one by one fit together into a bigger picture: a shrewd game of reality and fiction; a text about fame and fading away, truth and deception.

World premiere
08.07.2010 Festspiele Reichenau (Bühnenfassung und Director: Anna Maria Krassnigg)

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