Darwins Kapitän oder die wahre Geschichte von Jim Knopf

In the organizer's words:

Charles Darwin and his voyage on the "Beagle" are still familiar to most people today. The captain of the ship, however, is largely forgotten. Yet it was Robert Fitzroy who made Darwin's voyage possible in the first place - and inadvertently created the template for one of the most famous characters in children's literature: Jim Button.

Now, at the end of his life, Captain Robert Fitzroy looks back on his two voyages with the Beagle to Tierra del Fuego. To his personal battle with depression. To the abduction of four young Tierra del Fuegians to educate them as ambassadors of "civilization" in England. To the would-be naturalist named Charles Darwin, who dared to doubt the Bible.
He remembers how three world views clashed on this voyage: his own deeply ecclesiastical world view, Jemmy Button's nature-loving view and Darwin's burgeoning scientific ideas.

"Darwin's Captain and the True Story of Jim Button" is the first play of the Kleines Spiel that tells a historical event like a biopic. The text was based on the captain's logbook and Charles Darwin's notes. Short projections from the early days of the film show, among other things, the last surviving firelanders. The fantastically designed puppets were also based on historical images. In this way, the play takes the audience back to the events of the time.

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