Italienische Nacht

In the organizer's words:

A group of young people roam through the forest in search of utopia, belonging and something new. They are guided by Ödön von Horváth's almost hundred-year-old texts. As local young Nazis lay claim to their safe spaces, fascist violence increasingly penetrates everyday life in the small town and underlying tensions gradually escalate, the left-wing villagers find themselves under increasing pressure. Because: Who can stop them now? How far can or should anti-fascist resistance go? And how can a political group remain capable of acting when internal divisions are growing?

In his drama Italian Night, first performed in 1931, Ödön von Horváth examines the disintegration of social democratic and left-wing solidarity - a disintegration that increasingly paves the way for reactionary forces. Today, the text once again becomes a resonance chamber for the question of how to counter right-wing violence. Based on Horváth's drama, this production will question and attempt to grasp our own reality - because art always speaks from the present.

A production of the Otto Falckenberg School in cooperation with the Münchner Volkstheater and the Münchner Kammerspiele.