Well, who's about to blow up? Certainly not Mr. Biedermann. Well-off and supposedly well-educated, the hair tonic manufacturer learns of the horrors spreading through his town from the newspaper. Disguised as supposed peddlers, arsonists have crept into the town's respectable houses and burned many a domicile down to a skeleton of walls. Armed with this prior knowledge, nothing can happen to Mr. Biedermann. One day, however, when a kind stranger asks for shelter and something to eat, Biedermann is confronted with contradictory fears. Although soot sticks to the visitor's face, Biedermann is not a heartless miser. What place does mistrust have in a time of need?

Max Frisch's 1953 work "Biedermann and the Arsonists" was a political commentary at the time and in the production by Vierte Wand e.V. it retains a topicality that makes you think with humor.

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