Sophia oder das Ende der Humanisten

Comedy by Moritz Rinke

Sophia is highly intelligent, good-looking and a dazzling cook. She only has problems with doors. She simply can't open them because the latest model of an artificial human is not quite perfect yet. Wolfgang, a professor of history who has just been left by his wife, has chosen Sophia as his new partner. His daughter Helena is horrified, as Sophia looks like her mother when she was young. Together with her boyfriend Jonas, the successful influencer has come to celebrate her father's sixtieth birthday, which he seems to have forgotten. He has also just been relieved of his professorship, his apartment is empty and Sophia is preparing meals and scientific lectures at his side. In contrast to Helena, Jonas, a not entirely successful computer scientist with an ambition for gastronomy, is fascinated by Sophia. When he starts working on her menu, she develops a surprising life of her own.
In his new play, Moritz Rinke has written a philosophical comedy dedicated to the question of what constitutes humanity and how it is defined. Can an artificial being be more human than people made of flesh and blood?