Wenn nicht heut, wann dann!

In the organizer's words:

Wasenwald Festival 2025

Guest performance Theater Lindenhof

If not today, then when!

World premiere

Play about the 'Revolt of the Common Man' | Peasants' War 1525

By Franz Xaver Ott

When Adam dug and Eve stretched, Where was the nobleman then?

In the "Twelve Articles" in March 1525, the peasants formulated what they demanded as fundamental rights against the rulers. They were concerned with civil rights, co-determination and more justice. They wanted to get out of serfdom and the dependencies that led to social misery. Craftsmen and ordinary townspeople also joined the demands and marched through the countryside under the banner of the Bundschuh, chanting and singing songs against the nobility, imperial cities and the clergy. But the uprising is brutally crushed by the rulers.

A play about the great divide between the privileged and the 'common man', about right and wrong, power and powerlessness and the legacy of the Twelve Articles, which are regarded as one of the first written demands for human rights and freedom in Europe.

Theater Lindenhof in cooperation with the Naturtheater Reutlingen, the district of Reutlingen, the cities of Reutlingen and Friedrichshafen and the Upper Swabian Society for History and Culture e.V.

Theater area: open from 19:00
Auditorium: admission from 19:40