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Doctor Spielrein

A Virtual Reality Experience by RAUM+ZEIT (ALTHOFF/KITTSTEIN/MIKESKA)

«A kiss without consequences costs 10 franks.»
(in a letter by Sabina Spielrein to S. Freud via C.G. Jung)

In the summer of 1904, the Russian Spielrein family stays at the Hôtel Baur en Ville on Paradeplatz. Shortly afterwards, Sabina, their 18-year-old daughter, begins to riot and provokes their hospitalisation in the Burghölzli. She seeks help and distance from her family. The deputy secondary physician C.G. Jung tries out Sigmund Freud's ‘novel talking cure’ on her. Spielrein soon began studying medicine herself and wrote her doctoral thesis on schizophrenia. The married Jung became entangled in a relationship with her, and the therapeutic relationship was never dissolved. When it came to a break, Spielrein left Zurich and was accepted into Freud's Viennese ‘Wednesday Society’. Spielrein's ideas influenced both Jung and Freud. Long before the latter, she formulated a theory of the death instinct. In August 1942, Spielrein, her daughters and all the other Jewish people in her home town of Rostov-on-Don were murdered by the SS and forgotten.

An immersive installation, DOKTOR SPIELREIN combines virtual reality and live play. The collective RAUM+ZEIT was invited to the 2019 Schweizer Theatertreffen with their VR production ANTIGONE :: COMEBACK and won the Friedrich Luft Preis in 2022 for BERLAU :: KÖNIGREICH DER GEISTER.

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 21.48, duration 80 minutes. 
From the age of 16.

events

Mon
9.12.24
Theatre Monday: all tickets 50%

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 22.58 p.m. You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

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09
Tue
17.12.24

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 22.58 p.m. You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

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Thur
19.12.24

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 22.58 p.m.
You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

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19
Fri
20.12.24

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 22.58 p.m. You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

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20
Fri
27.12.24

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 22.58 p.m. You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

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27
Sat
28.12.24
For the last time

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 22.58 p.m. You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

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Cast and Team

With
Julia
Jentsch
With
Tabita
Johannes
With
Maximilian
Reichert
in the VR
Céleste
Michaelis
VR-guides
Jorė Gritėnaitė
Manuela Hollenweger
Lu Läderach
Eva Pelzner
Nadine Rhomberg
Salmo Suyo Salazar Gutierrez
Joane Schelling
Cindy Schrepfer
Leandra Wolf
Direction
Dramaturgy
Stage design
Costume design
Sound Design
360°-Video
RAUM+ZEIT (Althoff/Kittstein/Mikeska)
Heimspiel GmbH
Assistant directing internship
Philipp  Stevens
Set and costume design assistant
Assistant directing internship
Vivienne Vogt
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Content Note

There are content and sensory trigger warnings for this production. You can find out which ones in the overview.

A Virtual Reality Experience RAUM+ZEIT (ALTHOFF/KITTSTEIN/MIKESKA)

Gallery

Tabita Johannes © Matthias Horn

Maximilian Reichert © Matthias Horn

Julia Jentsch © Matthias Horn

Maximilian Reichert, Tabita Johannes, Julia Jentsch © Matthias Horn

Maximilian Reichert, Tabita Johannes, Julia Jentsch © Matthias Horn

© Matthias Horn

visitor DOCTOR SPIELREIN © Matthias Horn

Tabita Johannes © Matthias Horn

Tabita Johannes © Matthias Horn

Maximilian Reichert © Matthias Horn

Tabita Johannes, Julia Jentsch, Maximilian Reichert © Matthias Horn

Julia Jentsch © Matthias Horn

© Matthias Horn

vistor DOCTOR SPIELREIN © Matthias Horn

Trailer

Trailer © Nicolai Hildebrandt

Press

«Buchstäblich ein Wahnsinnsprojekt, mit technischer Gewitztheit und psychischer Wucht.»

Tages-Anzeiger

«Die Technik ist beeindruckend, und doch sind es, wie immer bei Raum+Zeit, die unmittelbaren Begegnungen, die faszinieren, die haften bleiben, die sich im Gemüt festkrallen.»

Süddeutsche Zeitung

«[Dem Stück] verdankt man eine neue ästhetische Erfahrung ebenso wie schmerzliche psychologische Selbsterfahrung.»

NZZ

review on telezueri.ch (23/10/2024, from Min. 11:30)

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