Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder

In the organizer's words:

A chronicle of the Thirty Years' War by Bertolt Brecht
With music by Paul Dessau

War has been raging for a long time with no prospect of peace. Mother Courage makes a living by going along with one or the other of the warring parties and providing them with everything they need.

Her three children are with her. And because they - unlike their mother - do not focus on profit but on moral standards, they ultimately fall victim to the war. The sons of the "Courage", Eilif and Schweizerkaas, fall into the clutches of the military and thus between relentless, senseless fronts.

Their mute daughter Kattrin also pays for this war with her life when she finds a way to make herself heard despite her disability. Thus the war, which is her source of income, brings Mother Courage nothing but loss, as the big deals in wars are not made by the little people.

In Mother Courage, written in exile in Sweden in 1938/39, Bertolt Brecht shows the hopelessness and futility of human virtues in the face of the atrocities of war. In the dehumanized world of a destroyed Europe, "Courage" learns that war knows no winners.