The thin Buddha
von Thomas Thieme
Erschienen in: Arbeitsbuch 2019: Luk Perceval (07/2019)
I hardly know Luk Perceval. For years we often worked alongside each other, day in, day out, for hours at a time. But we didn’t speak to each other, and never met up. He would watch me and I would act. Then he would say two or three sentences, then the rehearsal would be finished.
Never before had I felt so good on the stage, and never since.
I don’t know who he is. But I can try to describe how I experienced him, and how I felt about it, through the example of three scenes. Talking about myself is the only way to talk about LP.
At the Hamburger Schauspielhaus I played Faust in Grabbe’s Don Juan and Faust. The Artistic Director Mr Baumbauer approached me and said that the Belgian director Luk Perceval had lost his lead actor before his production of SCHLACHTEN. Mr Baumbauer said he could see me rehearsing this role with LP. LP had never seen me except in the GRABBE. In it I had a long monologue that I had recited quite animatedly. Mr Baumbauer sent me to LP’s Altona apartment. That must have been around 1998.
There we were, two basic types of...
