FREIGESPROCHEN

In the organizer's words:

FREIGESPROCHEN after Ödön von Horváth

Performers Barbara Altmann, Thomas Birnstiel, Christian Buse, Lana Baum, Joyce Craft, Tine Hagemann, Javier Kormann, Rachel Messner, Kerstin Schultes, Monika Zdrazil
Live music Shadi Hlal

A medium-sized village in the foothills of the Alps in the mid-1930s.
The inn, the church, the train station. An apparent normality full of social constraints and hardships. The stationmaster Hudetz is revered. Foreigners and newcomers are boycotted, the pharmacist for example. He and his sister are hated.
Then disaster strikes:
An express train crashes into a freight train, causing deaths and injuries. Something has gone wrong at the station. Was the signal switched to red in time or not? Witnesses are questioned. Hudetz is arrested. He is eventually released thanks to perjury on the part of the innkeeper's young daughter Anna. The village celebrates him as a hero.
Almost no one is interested in the truth. Anyone who objects is put in the pillory. Questions of morality and guilt are answered depending on the mood. But the ice is thin. A murder takes place and the tide turns again.
Horváth's dissecting view is still highly topical, because distortions of the truth and "expressions of opinion" are still booming today.
The original text was condensed and shortened for Theater Apropos in collaboration with dramaturge Barbara Altmann.
We hope Mr. Horváth will forgive us!

Concept and direction Burchard Dabinnus
Assistant directors Lilly Kühn, Jenny Krug
Dramaturgy Barbara Altmann
Stage and costumes Claudia Karpfinger, Katharina Schmidt
Lighting Solveig Perner
Stage manager Gabriele Werbeck
Project management Marie-Sophie Welker
Production management Nora Giersiepen, Jenny Krug
Production Ariadne e.V. in cooperation with the TamS Theater

Further information at www.theater-apropos.de and www.tamstheater.de/apropos_freigesprochen

Price information:

Admission € 20, reduced € 10 Ticket reservation via e-mail: tams@tamstheater.de