Divine Dramaturgy

The world-famous monodrama. When the premiere of the play took place simultaneously in Dresden and Berlin in 1976, both the press and the audience responded enthusiastically. It was described as a "brilliant, dramaturgically perfected monodrama" and a "brilliant theatrical piece" that received the "enthusiastic approval of the premiere audience." What is it that continues to make the story of Charlotte von Stein, who expresses her disappointed love in tirades after Goethe's abrupt departure from Weimar in 1786, so compelling to this day? It is Hacks' sensitivity to grand themes, his perfect sense of form, and his virtuoso wit with language.