DIE KASSETTE

In the organizer's words:

The Cassette by Carl Sternheim

A comedy from the life of a bourgeois hero

Oh yes, they are all heroes that Carl Sternheim chases across the stage in his comedy cycle "Aus dem bürgerlichen Heldenleben". Everyday heroes in petty bourgeois circumstances who, following the world order, strive for higher things. Heroes, however, with reversed characteristics: generosity and kindness are sought in vain here. Instead, the merciless analyst Sternheim equips his characters with the worst human qualities that can be found in the microcosm of the family. Unable to control their basest impulses, they stagger through the scenery like marionettes.

Mr. Krull, who has just returned home from his honeymoon, is in financial difficulties. The honeymoon was expensive and the considerably younger bride likes to shop. Then the strict aunt holds out the prospect of a highly attractive inheritance. Aunt Elsbeth's cassette, now the center of the freewheeling family cosmos, contains an unexpectedly large sum of money and securities and sucks Krull mercilessly into the dazzling world of material things. The newlywed now even prefers to spend his nights with the cassette. The family and love turmoil is exacerbated by the Krulls' neighbor, a free-spirited artist who knows how to seduce. Money or love? - The question is quickly answered in Sternheim's play: great fun!

The actors are Mona Creutzer, Jochen Deuticke, Jonas Laiblin, Paula Luy, Barbara Portsteffen & Ina Rottstegge in a production by Annette Schmidt