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Romain Rolland’s political farce Liluli (1919) dramatizes social rationality as total mobilization: Situated within the Enlightenment tradition of political allegory, the play shows how a fatal alliance of capital, nationalist propaganda, and intellectual disorientation turned Europe into a battlefield. In the face of a renewed normalization of war, Lennart Boyd Schürmann reworks Rolland's largely forgotten text as a resonance chamber for present-day ideological constellations. Having returned from the end of history, a group of dubious divine agents sets out to build viable dwellings from the ruins of modern illusions.

Lennart Boyd Schürmann (1994, London, United Kingdom) is a director and writer. In his works, choreographic models are developed and constellated around aporias inscribed in the modern project, in search of ways to communicate between irreducibly different perceptions. Together with curator Moritz Nebenführ, he works as , Bruch‘- in transnational collaborations between theater, visual arts, and academic research. Schürmann’s works are shown internationally in various institutional contexts.

Commissioned by steirischer herbst ’26
Produced by steirischer herbst ’26 in coproduction with symblysma
Supported by the Performing Arts Fund with funding from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
With the kind support of Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München and Verband Freie Darstellende Künste Bayern e. V. 

German and English with surtitles
For ages 14 and up
90 min.

Photo: courtesy of the artist