Michael Lentz/ Uli Winters, Lentz und Winters merken was

Michael Lentz/ Uli Winters, Cotard, 2009

One can nevertheless not always only read! A doctor becomes a worm through the word. Schiller´s The bell overhauls the reader. Rilke has the right to sound differently. Ballet goes without music, and brass-band music goes without trumpet. With this Lentz/Winter revue one never knows, what will happen next and especially not, what happened just a minute ago. A lot is at stake - Lentz and Winter fight for each point. Therefore the listener recognizes something again, which he did never see before.
Michael Lentz (born 1964) works as an author, musician, and performer. Since 2004 he has been president of the FreeAcademy of the Arts in Leipzig. Lentz has received numerous awards, among others the Ingeborg-Bachmann Prize (2001), the Hans-Erik-Nossak Sponsorship Award of the BDI (Federation of German Industries) (2002), or the Prize of the Literature Houses (2005) His latest novels are Liebeserklärung (2003) and Pazifik Exil (2007). In 2005 Michael Lentz and his colleague Uli Winters developed their literature performance and presented it on a tour through Cologne, Leipzig, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Salzburg, Frankfurt and Stuttgart. In these performances Michael Lentz reads while two puppets in the background, played by Uli Winters, constantly comment on what he is saying.By intervening in the lecture situation the puppets poke fun at the reading situation and of the performer himself.