Die Räuber

"The Robbers" freely adapted from Friedrich Schiller

It is the eternal conflict between reason and emotion, between the generations and between the powerful, which is negotiated here in words and deeds.

In short: Franz is the unloved second-born son in the Moor family. In his hatred of everything and everyone, he feels he has the right to spin a plot against his popular older brother Karl. With success: the brother is disowned by his father. Karl Moor, who loves freedom, then joins a band of robbers and quickly becomes their leader. Karl now sees himself as the protector of the oppressed and the avenger of all injustice, but falls deeper and deeper into a vicious circle of violence and outrage. Franz achieves his goal. He becomes the new ruler. But then the vengeful robbers approach the castle...

How much security can freedom tolerate, how much freedom can security create? Which world view needs which psyche, which psyche needs which world view? And what does our oh-so-blind ego have to say about this?

These universal, eternally topical questions, which already preoccupied Schiller, are explored in a profound and humorous way in the Rittersaal of the Altenburg.