Was die Nacht spricht

“Two women speaking to each other in an artificial language, workers in a tavern speaking in dialect, patients in a psychiatric hospital improvising their own words—all these divergent portrayals communicate not by interlocking through action, but by touching one another. All the narrative threads converge in the night, where night is less a matter of the time of day than of a state of mind. Just as the night isolates everything and intensifies its individuality, it also covers everything, connecting it all. The darkness reveals what it conceals.” (Hans Scheugl, 1985)