Kinder der Sonne

In the organizer's words:

In his 1905 play "Children of the Sun", Maxim Gorky describes a group of Russian intellectuals who have become alienated from the people and from concrete life. While the working class wished for the fall of the tsarist empire, they immersed themselves in books, art and love stories. 120 years later, the situation seems different: A large part of intellectual life is concerned with moral grievances and our future. Researchers on climate, migration and the economy are fighting to be heard, while - from top to bottom - funding is being cut. Even those who belong to the educated classes can hardly afford rents in city centers anymore. So what value does education currently have in our society? And what significance does it have for political processes? Or has academia squandered its claim to social participation in the ivory tower? Jakob Nolte pushes his classic core restoration in the direction of a black comedy. His characters wrestle their way through a world that is threatened with disappearance or has already imperceptibly vanished. Armed with little more than their vocabulary and a little dignity.

Director Laura Linnenbaum recently staged the world premiere of Tena Stivičić's "Die Verstreuten" at the Berliner Ensemble. Her works are characterized by atmospheric density and socio-politically relevant questions. "Children of the Sun" is Linnenbaum's second collaboration with playwright and novelist Jakob Nolte, who most recently shook up the regional crime genre with the noir thriller "The Woman with Four Arms".