STADT DER TEUFEL

The devil is in town! Satan Voland and his entourage invite you to a dark ball at Heimathafen Neukölln. He is on a secret mission with his devilish ministers Mefisto and Behemoth, because a revolution has broken out in hell. The sub-devils are demanding redistribution and the abolition of all ruling privileges as well as the satanic credo, which is: BEND UP. Annoying! Satan Voland, self-appointed monarch, patriarch and expert on everything, urgently seeks out his deputy Belzebubi to put down the uprising. But Belzebubi is on vacation on Earth and has apparently crashed into some Earth citizen - but who? What's going on with these people that Satan Voland hasn't met for 200 years and who now just want to shop and make a career? And who is this Margarita who turns up unannounced at the ball and takes up the pursuit of Satan?

In March 2024, glanz&krawall will launch their large-scale dismantling of the neoliberal imperative of careerism with STADT DER TEUFEL at Heimathafen Neukölln. The musical theater group is tackling the operetta genre for the first time and returning to its core idea: to make a racket and create a good mood in entertainment venues. To this end, glanz&krawall mix Franz von Suppé's operetta "The Devil on Earth" (Vienna, 1878) with passages from Mikhail Bulgakov's novel "The Master and Margarita" (Moscow, 1939) to create a diabolical contemporary cocktail. What temptations are we exposed to here in the diabolical primordial soup of patriarchy and capitalism? When and why do we spoon it up? And how can we free ourselves from this tricky situation?

In glanz&krawall's Teufeliade, the powerful get their comeuppance, as do all the smaller cogs that keep the system running. Singer and performer Cora Peter Frost sets off as the prince of hell with his baggage in search of the devilries of the present. 3/4 time meets pop rock, cheap magic tricks meet diabolical mysticism, neighborhood choir meets classical singing and drama meets city festival. Are you motherf***ers ready for the old shit?

Journal - Find out more about the background to the play in the interview with Dennis Depta and Marielle Sterra.

Note: Strobe effects are used in the performance.

Duration: 135 minutes (without intermission, bar open)

On 26.4. there will be an audience discussion after the performance in cooperation with Theaterscoutings.