Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß ( (The Confusions of Young Törless)

Puberty is war. Between tenderness and sadism, vulnerability and group pressure, perpetrators and victims – at least it is in the boarding school described in Robert Musil’s claustrophobically dark story. Confronted with overwhelming emotions for which he must first find a language, young Törless becomes part of a clique who conduct the humiliation of a fellow pupil with ice-cold calculation. He must ask himself what his own part in this sinister game is. Robert Musil’s 1906 debut work is the microcosmic analysis of a brutalisation that was to end in socially organised sadism only a few decades later. Lukas Krüger, assistant director at Schauspiel Leipzig, will stage “Törless” at Foyer 1.