CANCELED: OFFTANZ TIROL / Paolo Baccarani: WAHNWIZZI

OFFTANZ Tirol presents: WAHNWIZZI

In the 18th century and at the beginning of the 19th century, & quot; madmen & quot; were imprisoned in Europe. regularly put on display in front of the curious bourgeoisie (see Marat / Sade)

1964 by P. Weiss, as well as "Déraison et folie: histoire de la folie à l'âge classique", 1961 by M. Foucault). Animal characteristics were ascribed to them, which was connected on the one hand with a special kind of fascination and on the other hand with the need for distance - and imprisonment. WAHNWIZZI alludes to the performative conditions of this old madness show à la “Marat / Sade”, in which self-proclaimed reason celebrated its separation from irrationality. The attempt is being made to abolish precisely that borderline. The madness is not locked up, not observed from outside, in the others, but tracked down in one's own existences. The performers tr…