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by Nikolai Gogol | German by Ulrike Zemme
In German | On selected performance dates with surtitles in Farsi

A city in panic: For years people have lived beyond their means, and now the visit of an auditor is announced. This is how Gogol's biting social comedy "The Auditor" begins. The city's leaders hastily try to cover up the traces of waste. Then the terrible rumor spreads that the auditor has been residing incognito in the city for weeks. A delegation is immediately dispatched to exert a positive influence on him and perhaps win him over to their side with a few favors. Today, this would perhaps be called lobbying. In their zeal, however, the delegates overlook something important: the man in question is not an auditor sent by the highest authorities, but the indebted survivalist Khlestakov. Of course, he has nothing against the fact that he is suddenly being given all kinds of favors... Nikolai Gogol's "The Auditor" is a furious social comedy of mistaken identity about corruption and the power of attributions, which is perfectly suited to the fears of our present day: We won't be able to afford luxury for much longer, soon the lavish lifestyle will be exposed and then it will be payday. Director FX Mayr, who made his debut at the NTM last season with "Als die Götter Menschen waren", is interested in this feeling for the world. This content has been machine translated.