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.
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©Tristan Savoy
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.
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)