Theater Chemnitz brings Goethe’s “Sorrows of Young Werther” to the stage: a drama about love, which unfortunately is not immortal

The piece starts from the end. Lotte and Albert lie buried under Werther’s letters to his friend Wilhelm, on an open, sloping, torn stage resembling the swaying ground on which the three will act. For the story is well known: a young man, Werther, falls in love – unfortunately not immortal – into a young woman, Lotte, who – also unfortunately – already has a …