Alban Berg - Wozzeck 8 years old

The soldier Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher) flits through a world that he is unable to decipher. The doctor torments him with absurd medical experiments; the captain humiliates and ridicules him. And Wozzeck’s lover, Marie (Gun-Brit Barkmin), with whom he has a child, cuckolds him with the drum major. Wozzeck becomes a murderer, stabbing Marie to death. Georg Büchner’s drama fragment, on which Alban Berg based his first opera, is an unflinching case study of social injustice and human suffering. But it is also a grotesque piece that thrives on exaggeration – and in which only a fine line separates the unfathomable from the ridiculous. Accordingly, director Andreas Homoki forgoes all realism.

Credits

Alban Berg - Wozzeck Cast

Name	Character
Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke He was 49, now 57 years old	as Captain
Brandon Jovanovich He was 45, now 54 years old	as Drum Major

Alban Berg - Wozzeck Crew

Name	Department
Michael Beyer as Director.	Directing
Alban Berg as Music. He was 130 (50) years old when He died	Sound
Alban Berg as Writer. He was 130 (50) years old when He died	Writing