Kohlhaas (No Limits)

In the organizer's words:

SCHAUSPIEL

Small house

world premiere
by Felix Krakau after Heinrich von Kleist
Director: Felix Krakau

Kleist's 1810 novella about the horse trader Michael Kohlhaas, who unleashes an unprecedented cycle of violence in revenge for an injustice he has suffered, is a fast-paced thriller about law versus justice and the rebellion of an individual against the state. Kohlhaas is a berserker, a character of the highest moral ambivalence, described by Kleist as "one of the most righteous and at the same time most horrible men of his time". At the end of his campaign, cities lie in ruins and Kohlhaas himself finds himself on the scaffold.

Author and director Felix Krakau, who recently staged "Royals" at Theater Bremen, takes a contemporary look at Kleist's famous story and asks about the justification of the means, about ways out of the maelstrom and whether there can even be such a thing as simple solutions in a complex world.