Der Untergang des Hauses Usher - Premiere
A horror play with texts by Edgar Allan Poe and Wilke Weermann
The Theater Aachen is a house of art, societal debate, encounter, and much more. Is it also a haunted house? After all, its column-lined walls are now 200 years old. Wilke Weermann will explore the terrifyingly beautiful stories they could potentially tell. The author and director is known for his theatrically dense composed theater evenings, quoting genres such as science fiction and horror and opposing them with a subtle, profound humor. For his piece "Unheim," which addresses the debate on housing shortages as a futuristic-comedic ghost story, he was awarded the Kurt-Hübner Directing Prize in 2023. At the Theater Aachen, Weermann turns his attention to the great American master of horror literature, Edgar Allan Poe, intertwining his most exciting tales into a new horror story about dark family secrets and repressed guilt.