{"id":305,"date":"2006-11-09T03:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=305"},"modified":"2006-11-09T03:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T11:22:00","slug":"radical-geriatric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/radical-geriatric\/","title":{"rendered":"Radical geriatric"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here\u2019s another wish-I\u2019d-been-there-and-seen-that: the Hamburg staging by Nicolas Stemann of Elfriede Jelinek\u2019s play \u201cUlrike Maria Stuart.\u201d Not sure I\u2019d like Jelinek\u2019s take, though I remain fascinated by those moments in European history when the revolutionary possibilities of 1968 turned into the tragedy (because of the killings involved) and farce (because of the breathtaking idiocy and incompetence) of the seventies urban guerrilla movements, and especially German RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion).<\/p>\n

Below the opening paras of Christopher Schmidt\u2019s review of the play that appeared in the S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung<\/b> <\/i>on October 30, 2006. <\/i>You can read the full review here<\/a> at signandsight, that ever useful site.<\/div>\n

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Nicolas Stemann blithely desescrates Elfriede Jelinek\u2019s play \u201cUlrike Maria Stuart\u201d, at Hamburg\u2019s Thalia Theater. Intelligent septuagenarian RAF schlock horror, says Christopher Schmidt.<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Today they\u2019d probably form a rock group rather than a political one, and Andreas Baader<\/b>, Ulrike Meinhof<\/b> and Gudrun Ensslin<\/b> would play death metal rather than live it till their deaths. On the stage of Hamburg\u2019s Thalia Theater<\/a>, the RAF veterans have reformed as an OAP band<\/b>. One standing on a tripod, the other on a dolly, the two erstwhile rivals Gundrun and Ulrike wobble towards each other. Physically disintegrating but ideologically in tact, the RAF setptuageneriennes pose with their Andy, who can no longer close his biker jacket round his belly of affluence, Bond girls and their manchild with the golden Colt, fighting more over him than for a new world order. From the bitch fight with poisoned love, a menage sentimentale. You only live twice \u2013 as man and as myth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s another wish-I\u2019d-been-there-and-seen-that: the Hamburg staging by Nicolas Stemann of Elfriede Jelinek\u2019s play \u201cUlrike Maria Stuart.\u201d Not sure I\u2019d like Jelinek\u2019s take, though I remain fascinated by those moments in European history when the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}