Who opens the doors of the laboratories now? Hans Neuenfels died in Berlin on Sunday at the age of 80.
The director, author and filmmaker Hans Neuenfels (1941-2022).
At first he was often confused. What were all these unsympathetic critters supposed to do there? Loud scurrying experimental rats that populated Wagner’s holy of holies, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus! And the beasts seemed to feel so comfortable in their laboratory prison on stage that no one wanted to run after the noble swan knight Lohengrin as the new savior. He had to leave without having achieved anything and put an egg in the nest of the rat civilization as punishment. A clone monster peeled off with the lamentations of the ending.