Lenz

Even the most unnatural thing is nature. He who does not see it everywhere, does not recognize it anywhere

From The Metamorphosis of Plants by JW Goethe

In 1776 Jakob Michael Reinhold Lena was hosted in the parish of Waldbach, a village in the Vosges, by Pastor Johann Friedrich Oberlin.

Oberlin notes in his 'Diary' Lenz's behaviors, reactions, and metamorphoses during his stay in the village.

Lenz died insane in 1792 on a Moscow street.

In 1835 Georg Buchner, inspired by Oberlin's 'Diary', wrote a short story.

He died of typhus in 1837 in Zurich. In 1950 Bertolt Brecht staged Lenz's "The Tutor".

He died of a heart attack in 1956 in Berlin.

Rosalba Guidi performs on stage the 1°, 3°, 5°, 6°, 7°, 11°, 15°, 16°, 17th Lieder from Franz Schubert's "Winterreise" (1823); she performs and sings Ludwig van Beethoven's "Die Sehnsucht" (The Burning Desire).

The text of this Lieder is by J.W.Goethe.

Only he who knows the burning desire knows what I am suffering! • I am alone and detached from all joy.

I look at the firmament, right that way.

Ah, he who loves me and knows me is far away.

My head is spinning.

My insides are burning.

Only those who know this desire know what I am suffering

The filmed scenes are by Francesco Pititto and were filmed in the S. cemetery. Cataldo di Modena designed by Aldo Rossi "The blue of the sky" (1971).

Meaning of architecture

The layout of the cemetery as an empty house is the space of memory of the living. Certainly, great architecture of the past saw in the cemetery and the tomb the exaltation of history, where the person disappears goes within the framework of a civil and public death.

The Pantheon is a tomb. But in the modern world the relationship is increasingly private; and the cult of the dead consists above all in keeping remorse alive. Closed in remorse, death becomes a feeling, and has no sto-

ria. Only the civil aspects of this feeling can express themselves

in architecture. (...)"

Aldo Rossi

LENZ is played by only one actor, Bruno Stori.

In 1984, he played another Buechnerian character, Woyzeck.

From the screenplay for "Film" by Samuel Beckett, starring Buster Keaton, (1896 - 1966) shot in New York in 1964:

Esse est percipi

Suppressed all foreign, animal, human, divine perception, self-perception continues to exist.

The attempt to not be, in the escape from all foreign perception, is thwarted by the inevitability of self-perception.

The above is pure structural and dramatic expedient and does not possess

no truth value. (...).