The Visitor (Schmitt)

the Visitor is a part of Théâtre of the author French Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt.

One night, a few weeks after the Anschluss, whereas the German troops ravel in Vienna of which they take possession, a doctor Sigmund Freud anxious receives a strange visitor equipped as a dandy. It will claim to be God.

While recreating the context of Vienna in 1938, Schmitt places celebrates it psychoanalyst in an inner struggle: does he still believe in God? With does such events, God exist? How to protect his/her daughter Anna from an officer Nazi well undertaking? And this “visitor”, who is it? This part is a Théodicée, a test to justify the existence of the Mal in spite of the existence of God.

After a first on September 23rd, 1993 (either, coincidentally, the day of the death of Sigmund Freud; date which is also mentioned in the part), the part spent time to obtain success. The text is finally the strongest sale for the contemporary theater with more than 40.000 sold specimens. The part received three prices at the time of the Nuit of Molières 1994: better author, theatrical revelation and better spectacle.

It was adapted in telefilm for the chain Arte. In 2002, the Magnard editor published an edition with accompanying notes bound for the public French high-school pupil (published by Catherine Cassin-Pellegrini); this edition announces for example the bonds between the counterparts of the part and the historical context, and the Psychanalyse of Freud.

It is taken again this year (following the success of the last year) with Space 44 in Lyon.

Sigmund Freud | God | Nazism

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