Wastebook scenes

The film is adapted from a play by Cyrille Offermans Lichtenberg scenes at the dawn of a new era Although the protagonist shares some features with the experimental physicist and writer George Christoph Lichtenberg 17421799 who wrote the famous Sudelbücher and numerous letters the film does not pretend any historical accuracy with respect to the real Lichtenberg but focuses on Offermans hybrid partial fictitious personage The result is not an interplay between fact and fiction but a sort of view of Lichtenberg mouthing some 19th and 20th century authors he couldnt have known strictly speaking but whose alleged fantastic formulations seem to follow from his own writings in a natural way