Wetterfühlig
theater/performance/installation/music 2025/26
a production of Vorarlberger Landestheater
with
Bella Angora, Isabella Campestrini, Nico
Raschner
text, direction, set and costume design: Bella Angora / set design
assistant: Ariana
Mirea
video: Sarah Mistura / music: Oliver Stotz / dramaturgy: Stephanie
Gräve
An unceasing stream of messages and notifications, voices, opinions, interactions. People and media, sounds, images, screen flicker: everything around us is loud, loud, LOUD—a constant assault on the senses, and there are hardly any moments left in which the outside world does not intrude into our inner lives.
For the protagonist of Bella Angora’s WETTERFÜHLIG, the world has become unbearable. Too many stimuli, too much noise, too many expectations. She withdraws, cuts all connections, and turns her apartment into a fortress in order to find herself again—or perhaps to discover herself for the first time. While life continues outside, she is left with one final connection to the world beyond her walls: the weather.
Nature, relentless and indifferent to individual worries, becomes her only interlocutor. The sky, the wind, the rain—she reads her own moods in the changing conditions, projecting her fears and hopes onto the weather. She becomes weather-sensitive. Yet as she remaps her inner world, larger questions emerge: How meaningful is self-analysis in times of crisis? Do personal states of mind still matter when the climate is changing so dramatically? Is the exploration of the self merely a luxury—or is it essential for survival in an era that is pushing more and more people toward exhaustion and overwhelm?
WETTERFÜHLIG is a journey to the limits of withdrawal, balancing on the edge between poetic introspection, social critique, and an angry confrontation with a world that is coming apart at the seams.
