Ostermeier writings [2]

Spanish director and dramaturg lex Rigola was Artistic Director of the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona from 2003 to 2011, and director of the theatre section of the Venice Biennale since 2010. In January 2005, Rigola brought Thomas Ostermeier's radical production of Ibsen's Nora A Doll's House to the Teatre Lliure. Afterwards, he met Ostermeier for the following interview, which was conducted in English and took place in Berlin on 20 February 2005. In Germany, especially in the German Regietheater of the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, Ibsen was always known as the writer who revealed the mysteries of the soul. This led to a special tradition in putting Ibsen on stage, and actors often had a typical way of interpreting Ibsen's characters in their mind. It was a way of trying to portray the inner landscape of the character. Ibsen was widely interpreted as the writer who had put the ideas of Freud on stage before Freud himself developed them.