Das KantTheater präsentiert: „Hand Fallada – Jeder Stirbt für sich allein“

In the organizer's words:

"One day in 1940, Mr. and Mrs. Quangel, two insignificant individuals in the north of Berlin, take up the fight against the monstrous machinery of the Nazi state, and the grotesque happens: The elephant feels threatened by the mouse"

The model for this novel by Hans Fallada was the working-class couple Otto and Elise Hampel, who were executed in Berlin-Plötzensee on April 8, 1943 for their rebellion against the Nazi regime's contempt for humanity. In an almost thriller-like atmosphere, Fallada tells the story of so-called "little people" who, between 1940 and 1942, spread appeals for resistance on cards and in letters after the death of their son at the front caused them to completely lose their originally positive attitude towards Hitler and his war machine.

It depends on each individual - then as now.

By and with Anette Daugardt and Uwe Neumann