Above all, the name Frank Wedekind is associated today with the plays Spring Awakening and Lulu—both of which caused significant scandals at the time of their creation but are now part of the classical theatre canon of modernity.
However, Wedekind wrote a further twenty plays, most of which are now unknown. In these works, he continued to grapple with the themes that occupied him throughout his life: the relationship between men and women, society’s approach to sexuality and physicality, and the relationship between art and commerce.
Wedekind was also a poet, satirist, actor, singer, and copywriter—a versatile artist always inclined to provoke, whose work merits rediscovery.
The exhibition in Munich, where Wedekind spent a large part of his life, explores the main coordinates of his theatrical world and its remarkable impact in film, music, and comics.
