Leonce und Lena

In the organizer's words:

The young Prince Leonce from the kingdom of Popo has everything one could wish for, and yet he is tired of this abundance and social expectations. Bored and unmotivated, he plods through his everyday life. Only a marriage arranged by his father allows him to become active: He flees his fate to Italy with his friend and servant Valerio. There, Leonce and Lena, a princess from the kingdom of Pipi, meet incognito and fall in love, unaware that they are destined for each other. The headstrong royal children return home wearing masks and are married as automatons instead of the untraceable couple. When the masks fall, they realize that what they had planned has come true: "That was the escape to paradise. I have been deceived." Between lightness, humor and comedy of errors, Georg Büchner's play raises the big questions about the meaning of human existence. Lustfully reeling, anxiously loving, his characters strive for a moment of true freedom between world-weariness and boredom.