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Tyll is a juggler, a provocateur and a fool. Daniel Kehlmann's brilliant adaptation of the Eulenspiegel myth takes us back to the time of the Thirty Years' War. Tyll Ulenspiegel, legendary prankster and folk hero, travels across Europe together with the baker's daughter Nele.

On their way, they meet many small people and also the so-called greats: the juggler Pirmin, who becomes a brutal teacher to Tyll, and the exiled king and queen of Bohemia, whose brief reign plunged the whole country into a catastrophe. But also the young Count Wolkenstein, who never saw a battlefield in his life, and the worldly sage Athanasius Kircher, who had Tyll's father murdered as a sorcerer - and whose greatest secret is that he freely invented his scientific teachings. Their fates combine to create a panorama of a world that has gone off the rails.

Directed by André Kaczmarczyk, the seven students from the Düsseldorf Drama Studio of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Performing Arts Leipzig perform "Tyll" by bestselling author Daniel Kehlmann as a traveling troupe of jugglers. Full of humor and hope, the novel tells the story of what allows us to survive in dark times.