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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 70 minutes. 
From the age of 16.

events

Wed
23.10.24
Premiere

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 21.48 p.m.
You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

Soldout
23
Fri
25.10.24

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 21.48 p.m.
You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

Sat
26.10.24

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 21.48 p.m.
You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

Soldout
26
Mon
28.10.24
Theatre Monday: all tickets 50%

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 21.48 p.m.
You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

Soldout
28
Wed
30.10.24

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 21.48 p.m.
You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

Soldout
30
Tue
5.11.24

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 21.48 p.m.
You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

Soldout
05
Wed
6.11.24

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 21.48 p.m.
You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

06
Fri
8.11.24

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 21.48 p.m.
You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

08
Sun
10.11.24

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 15.36 and 19.48 p.m.
You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

10
Tue
12.11.24

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 21.48 p.m.
You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

12
Fri
15.11.24

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 21.48 p.m.
You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

15
Sat
16.11.24

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 21.48 p.m.
You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

16
Tue
19.11.24

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 21.48 p.m.
You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

19
Wed
20.11.24

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 21.48 p.m.
You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

20
Fri
22.11.24

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 21.48 p.m.
You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

22
Sat
23.11.24

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 21.48 p.m.
You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

23
Mon
25.11.24
Theatre Monday: all tickets 50%

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 21.48 p.m.
You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

25
Wed
27.11.24

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 14.36 and 18.48 p.m.
You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

27
Fri
29.11.24

Admission every 12 minutes for one person between 17.36 and 21.48 p.m.
You will find your personal admission time on your ticket.

29
Tue
3.12.24
03
Wed
4.12.24
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Cast and Team

With
Julia
Jentsch
With
Tabita
Johannes
With
Maximilian
Reichert
With
Céleste
Michaelis
With
5
VR-Guides
Idea and concept
Alexandra Althoff
Lothar Kittstein
Bernhard Mikeska
Text
Lothar Kittstein
Direction
Bernhard Mikeska
Dramaturgy
Alexandra Althoff
Stage design
Maira Bieler
Costume design
Ruth Wulffen
Sound design
Knut Jensen
VR-Video
RAUM+ZEIT (Althoff/Kittstein/Mikeska)
Stefan Schmidt
Heimspiel GmbH
Light
Rasmus Stahel
Assistant directing internship
Philipp  Stevens
Set and costume design assistant
Greta Wilhelm
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)

Publication of performance dates for October and pre-sale start: 5 September 2024