Land

In the organizer's words:

It's not the earth's fault.

A farm in Bavaria is the setting for three contemporary images about man's dependence on nature. "Land" tells of our attempts to conquer it in order to survive.

Microbiologist Fritzi has inherited a farm and is researching the food of the future. But the land challenges her. The farm seems to be occupied by her neighbor Johanna and figures emerge from her head claiming to be the universe, the soil or Uncle Georg.

Fast forward to 1973: Ulrike doesn't want to take over the farm, and neither does her brother. Her parents had invested, bought machines, modernized. But now there is an oil crisis and everything they have learned to do and plan is shaky. Father Hermann slaughters the last sow, and Ulrike is haunted by an even deeper buried past: The largest volcanic eruption in our records, Tambora in Indonesia, blows a gigantic cloud of ash across the globe in 1815, blocking out the sun. The two missing summers cause one of the greatest famines in Europe in the 19th century and where the new stable is now to be built, there was the wooden hut of their ancestors...

Director Christoph Frick and author Lothar Kittstein have already dealt intensively with the climate crisis and scenarios for sustainable coexistence in artistic and activist terms. In combination with choreography and video, the result is a haunting and visually powerful piece about our dependence on nature.

Price information:

Thu-Sat: 25€, Sun-Mi: 20€, under 30 years: 10€