Die Feuerzangenbowle

The cult play is back: "The best thing in life", sums up the group of men around the young writer Dr. Pfeiffer, "was my time at grammar school". But Pfeiffer had private lessons, never went to school, knows neither the pupils nor the pranks that are played on them, is "not a person at all, so to speak".

A crazy idea: to bring back the good old days and catch up on what he had missed. As a "whistler with three f's", he becomes Professor Crey's "Schöler" in Babenberg's upper school, learns from Bömmel what the "Dampfmaschin'" is all about and devises all kinds of mischief with his pubescent schoolmates to fool the teaching staff. But soon he also has more serious intentions, as he begins to develop quite grown-up feelings for the charming daughter of the strict principal ...

Stage version: Wilfried Schröder
Director and stage: Axel Schneider
Musical arrangement: Olaf Paschner
Costumes: Daniela Kock

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