antigone. ein requiem

In the organizer's words:

Bodies are piling up on the beaches of Thebes. Countless anonymous, alien bodies - drowned bodies, washed up on the shores of Europe. Whose dead are they? While the overwhelmed citizens of the city are still wondering who these dead bodies belong to, ruler Creon sees the fragile peace and democratic order in danger. The law says that the bodies should remain where they are, wrapped in plain sacks. But Antigone drags the swollen bodies into the city and demands a humane burial. A dispute breaks out over the state's legal system and subjective sense of justice.

Thomas Köck's "recomposition" of Sophocles' tragedy charges the ancient characters with contemporary meaning. With subtle humor and linguistic finesse, he dissects the conflict between law and morality, idealism and realpolitik and opens up a new perspective on ourselves and our time by means of a myth that is thousands of years old. Do we have to defend our values so that they are not destroyed? Or are we destroying our values precisely by defending them?