In the organizer's words:

An authoritarian state, two brothers on a collision course and a family falling apart under the pressure of time: while Franz rises to become the mouthpiece of the regime with calculated ruthlessness, Karl leads a desperate uprising. But the more radical his struggle becomes, the more the boundaries between liberation and despotic violence blur for him.

In this futuristic reinterpretation of Schiller's classic, the family drama is relocated to a Germany of the near future - a country that has regrouped under a dictatorial order. After the death of the head of the family, a dispute breaks out between the sons over power, legacy and moral authority. In the middle of it all is Amalia: an astute, unwavering observer who sees through both Karl's fanatical idealism and Franz's manipulative coldness. She raises the question of whether freedom can exist at all without taking it away from others.

Director Matthias Köhler opens up the text to our present day and asks for points of orientation in a system that seems to be morally eroding. When does resistance become a moral duty - and at what point does it destroy the values it claims to defend?

The Förderverein Theater Erlangen e.V. invites you to an accompanying foyer evening: Democracy in danger - Schiller's "The Robbers" today. A discussion about the future of our society in a time of increasing uncertainty.