I'm Next Door: Ingrid Lausund's Monologues as an Intense Reading in Göttingen

When Home Becomes the Stage for Inner Abysses

On Friday, October 9, 2026, the Sheddachhalle in the Sartorius Quartier Göttingen will transform into a resonance space for the quiet catastrophes of everyday life. Bjarne Mädel and Fritzi Haberlandt will read texts from Ingrid Lausund's I'm Next Door. Monologues for Home – a literary stage encounter about loneliness, self-assertion, and the longing for a functional home.

Between Living Comfort and Emotional Failure

Ingrid Lausund directs attention to shaky life foundations and interiors in need of renovation. Her monologues tell of people who have settled in small parallel universes, struggling for dignity, closeness, and control. Behind familiar furniture, ritualized routines, and seemingly private problems, societal cracks reveal themselves.

Acting with Dark Humor

The dramaturgy thrives on precise observations and surprising twists. Lausund's texts combine sharp humor with emotional accuracy: an incidental sentence tips into an existential realization, an everyday scene becomes a glaring spotlight on human vulnerability. Bjarne Mädel and Fritzi Haberlandt give the characters contour with vocal versatility and great presence.

A Literary Stage Experience in the Sartorius Quartier

The Sheddachhalle provides the fitting atmospheric setting for this reading. Where architecture and industrial history meet, a concentrated theater atmosphere emerges: voices, pauses, and the sound of language come to the forefront. The audience does not experience a distanced book presentation but a scenic reading in which the art of acting makes the inner spaces of the characters visible.

Ingrid Lausund and the Art of the Precise Gaze

Lausund is known as a theater author and screenwriter of the series Crime Scene Cleaner for her quirky humor and precise character portrayal. For the stage version, selected monologues have been compiled from a cycle of twelve texts. The result is an evening that blends literature, theater, and audio art, observing the ordinary from an unusual closeness.

Conclusion: An Evening that Resonates

I'm Next Door. Monologues for Home promises an intense stage experience with dark humor, linguistic precision, and moments of unexpected emotion. The performance will be simultaneously translated into German Sign Language. Those who wish to experience theater as a mirror of societal and personal reality will find in Göttingen an evening whose voices linger long after the final applause.

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Sources:

• ADticket – Event Information and Tickets
• Deutsches Theater – Production Information
• Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden – Play Description and Press Review
• Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg – Production Information
• Reservix – Göttingen Literature Autumn