Verführung

Hauke Born, a marriage swindler and con man, sits in a dreary room. He wears an ankle bracelet. After six years in prison, he is supposed to reintegrate into society. His therapist Tania has accompanied him for years on his way back to freedom. He's almost there when Sonja Schwarz shows up for a visit. She claims to be his daughter. Hauke is surprised and skeptical. The two meet and grow closer. Is Sonja looking for a father? Does Hauke need the daughter? And are they perhaps only interested in the seven million that nobody knows where they have gone?

Hauke claims that he no longer has it. It was dirty money. The woman from whom he scammed the money is a rich industrial heiress, and her family became rich with the help of Polish and Jewish forced laborers in the 1940s.

Lukas Bärfuss devotes his play to the art of seduction. Who wants to be seduced? Who allows himself to be seduced? Do political, amorous, financial or moral motives play a role? And are terrible human fates merely used and degenerate into anecdotes when the contemporary witnesses can no longer speak for themselves?