Einsame Menschen

In the organizer's words:

Marie, a renowned architect expecting her first child, wants to realize her vision of a country life with urban aspirations in the environs of Berlin. A historic villa on a lake, just 40 minutes from the city center, is to be transformed into an international, sustainable co-working gardening space. Her husband Gerhart wants to devote himself to his doctoral thesis on applied animal sociology there in absolute peace and quiet. His mother Erika moves in right away to support the nuclear family along with a special healing method. But despite all the closeness to nature, the longed-for peace does not materialize. The newborn cries incessantly, and then Margarete moves in as a co-worker, an attractive digital nomad, a convinced advocate of the share principle, and at home wherever there is Wi-Fi. Felicia Zeller's play, inspired by Gerhart Hauptmann, tells a highly comical story of the loneliness of a generation that wants to reconcile its megalomania with sustainability and responds to the destruction of nature with a cult of nature. Circling around themselves, they monologue past each other, for something speaks non-stop through them: an inner restlessness, a narcissistically charged longing that cannot be satisfied by any landscape in this world. FELICIA ZELLER is a German writer and self-proclaimed economic dramatist. Her plays, most recently "Der Fiskus" (2020) and "DER GELDKOMPLEX" (2021), revolve around the relationship between the modern working world and the individual. In 2020, she received the Else Lasker Schüler Playwriting Prize. "Einsame Menschen" is Zeller's first play at the Berliner Ensemble. This content has been machine translated.