Torsten Krug /// director / singer / author

A simple room, four (video) walls - they form the (rehearsal) stage for the struggle for life: karate, a clean sport that demands quick decisions and doesn't hurt outwardly. Slow motion images. In between the actors Maike Jebens, Carola Sigg, Michael Pempelforth. And the audience. It's part of the experiment. (...) The work of Carlfriedrich Claus is generally considered difficult to access. Nevertheless, Claus himself provided the explanation for his way of producing art in many letters, diaries and conversations that are now accessible. Director Torsten Krug draws from this pool. And he succeeds (...) in gradually opening up Carlfriedrich Claus's 'experimental space', which at first seems closed. (...) It represents the personality of the artist in three parts, (...) represented by three players who rarely meet in dialogue, yet never talk past and never talk to each other, yet do not want to meet in a kiss or in a different touch – giving touching touches to the very text-heavy (but not overloaded) piece. (...) At the end the walls rise, the spectators are released into life. A beginning – the piece is called 'starting point'.