Lichtspiel

In the organizer's words:

Light play
based on the novel by Daniel Kehlmann and directed by Christian Stückl

Georg Wilhelm Pabst is one of the most successful directors of the Weimar Republic. He is known as the "master of editing" or "the red Pabst" because of his political films. However, when he emigrated to America at the beginning of the 1930s, the fame of the Weimar Republic was of little use to him. He was repeatedly mistaken for more famous colleagues, Warner Brothers offered him a film, but it flopped at the box office and with the critics. And so, shortly afterwards, Pabst and his family set off on a special return journey: while most other artists fled abroad, he accepted an invitation from Goebbels' film industry and returned to the German Reich. A pact with the devil awaits him there. The family home is in the hands of the National Socialist housekeeper and the artistic work he is offered is, of course, to be in line with the Nazi line. Meanwhile, his wife Trude and his son Jakob are also taken over by various parts of the Nazi system.

Daniel Kehlmann's acclaimed novel tells of self-betrayal, the pursuit of fame at all costs and the loss of self that comes with it. Christian Stückl is now bringing the bestseller to the stage for the first time.

More information and tickets here: https://www.muenchner-volkstheater.de/programm/schauspiel/lichtspiel