©Natalia Pais-Fornari
©Natalia Pais-Fornari
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„In Berlin werde ich in kürzerer oder längerer Zeit zu meinem wahrhaftigen Vergnügen erfahren, was die Welt von mir will und was meinerseits ich selber von ihr zu wollen habe.”, das schrieb Robert Walser 1915 als er Berlin schon hinter sich und erfahren hatte, dass die Welt nichts von ihm wollte und also auch er nichts von ihr wollen durfte.
Marti ist neu in Berlin und sucht einen Job. Er möchte sich und seine Fähigkeiten kennenlernen und diese in den Dienst einer erfüllenden Arbeit stellen. Von einer Vermittlungsagentur werden ihm aus Versehen zwei Jobs gleichzeitig zugeteilt. Er berichtigt den Fehler allerdings aus Schüchternheit nicht und findet sich also tagsüber als Gehilfe eines sprunghaften Ingenieurs, der in einer Villa am Alexanderplatz wohnt, und nachts als Assistent einer ambitionierten (größenwahnsinnigen?) Regisseurin, die in einem Keller die Opern-Adaption der Tage der Commune probt. Hoffnungsvoll knüpft er seine Identität und sein Selbstbewusstsein an seine Assistentenarbeit, deren tatsächliche Ausführung allerdings verblüffend unklar bleibt.
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"In Berlin, in a shorter or longer time, I will learn to my true pleasure what the world wants from me and what I myself have to want from it," Robert Walser wrote in 1915, when he had already left Berlin behind and had learned that the world wanted nothing from him and that he, too, was not allowed to want anything from it.
Marti is new in Berlin and is looking for a job. He wants to get to know himself and his abilities and put them to use in fulfilling work. A placement agency accidentally assigns him two jobs at the same time. He doesn't correct the mistake, however, out of shyness, and so finds himself a daytime assistant to a mercurial engineer who lives in a villa on Alexanderplatz, and a nighttime assistant to an ambitious (megalomaniac?) director who is rehearsing an opera adaptation of the Days of the Commune in a basement. Hopefully, he ties his identity and self-confidence to his assistant's work, the actual execution of which, however, remains perplexingly unclear.
Marti is new in Berlin and is looking for a job. He wants to get to know himself and his abilities and put them to use in fulfilling work. A placement agency accidentally assigns him two jobs at the same time. He doesn't correct the mistake, however, out of shyness, and so finds himself a daytime assistant to a mercurial engineer who lives in a villa on Alexanderplatz, and a nighttime assistant to an ambitious (megalomaniac?) director who is rehearsing an opera adaptation of the Days of the Commune in a basement. Hopefully, he ties his identity and self-confidence to his assistant's work, the actual execution of which, however, remains perplexingly unclear.
