'Wie so eine kleine Flaschenpost:' die Flaschenpost-Metapher bei Bas Böttcher

The Flaschenpost trope often centers on the image of a shipwrecked sailor who, in a moment of desperate hope, seals his message in a bottle and commits it to the ocean. Through this trope the author calls the effectiveness of lyrical communication into question, since he cannot exclude the possibility that the bottle will remain lost at sea, never able to reveal its message. Yet if it reaches its destination, can it convey an undistorted message to its anonymous recipient? Such doubts are foreign to Bas Böttcher. His Flaschenpost-communication avoids misinterpretation, because it permits many layers of interpretation and presupposes the creative input of both audience and performance space.