Lars Eidinger retires as Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival!

Created: 07/18/2022 10:29 am

By: Katja Kraft

He raises his glass to the next, his last season as Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival: Lars Eidinger © babiradpicture/87

Lars Eidinger breathed new life into "Jedermann" at the Salzburg Festival in the title role.

But now it's over: Lars Eidinger doesn't want to play "Jedermann" next year.

From today you can experience him 14 more times as "Jedermann".

Today, "Jedermann" celebrates its premiere at the Salzburg Festival.

It is a revival of the celebrated but also controversial "Jedermann" production from 2021. And it will be Lars Eidinger's last.

As the 46-year-old actor announced in an interview with ORF, he will no longer appear as "Jedermann" on the stage of the Salzburg Festival next season.

So if you want to see Eidinger's very own interpretation of the title role again, you have 14 more opportunities to do so this year.

Intense acting: Lars Eidinger in the title role of Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival.

© Barbara Gindl

"I really enjoy playing here.

Of course I'll miss it next year," Eidinger told ORF.

But it was a conscious decision.

"I saw my task as a bit of showing myself there and saying: I'm the old white man and stand there as a representative and question myself.

It is ultimately a farewell to patriarchy.

Because it is becoming clear in our time where a male-dominated society is leading.”

Especially in times of war in Europe, it was important for the ensemble, including the paramour Verena Altenberger, who for her part had just said goodbye to the "Police call 110", to use the stage to breathe new life into the play about the rich man dying.

After all, it tells the story of every person who, instead of doing good with the means at his disposal, thinks only of himself.

Tickets and information about the Salzburg Festival are available here