Le Fabuleux Destin de Monsieur Della Merde

performance, 20:00, French, 2025
Léa Katharina Meier, in collaboration with Tatiana Baumgartner, presents a solo performance centered on a recurring element of her artistic practice: storytelling. In Le Fabuleux Destin de Monsieur Della Merde (The Fabulous Destiny of Mr. Della Merde), her clownish alter ego, Monsieur Della Merde, recounts a series of short stories that have marked his fabulous destiny. Between logorrhea, lullabys, victim and persecutor, magic tricks, hostage-taking, hysterical crises, and bawdy songs, this oscillating character will alternately seduce, frighten, and move you. Le fabuleux destin de Monsieur Della Merde is a solo excerpt from the collective play Terminale Hysteria, conceived and directed by Tatiana Baumgartner and Léa Katharina Meier.
Language: French and Italian version available
Concept, artistic collaboration, and staging: Léa Katharina Meier et Tatiana Baumgartner
Performance, text and visuals Léa Katharina Meier
Costume: Safia Semlali
Mask: Chaïm Vishel
Administration and diffusion: Artemisia Romano
Team of creation, production and administration of « Terminale Hysteria »: Tatiana Baumgartner, Léa Katharina Meier, Maria-Fernanda Ordonnez Pinzon, Dominique Gilliot, Adina Secretan, Vicky Althaus, Charlotte Carteret, Guits, Redwan Reys, Nayansaku Mufwankolo, Safia Semlali, Artemisia Romano, Arsenic - Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne, TU-Théâtre de l’Usine, Genève, Perform! Pro Helvetia, Fondation Ernst Göhner, Fondation Leenaards, Loterie Romande Vaud, Service des Affaires culturelles du Canton de Vaud, Ville de Lausanne. 

Dates

  • 17.12.2025, TBA, TBA (IT)
  • 24.10.2025, Performissima, Paris (FR)