WoW – Word on Wirecard

After his spectacular installation "Respublika", Polish shooting star Łukasz Twarkowski once again creates one of his virtuoso theater worlds between film and stage.

Together with playwright Anka Herbut, he tackles the bizarre story of the collapse of Munich-based financial services provider Wirecard. The biggest financial scandal in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany revolves around virtual turnover in the billions and the seductive imagination of a world-class German tech giant that finally wanted to play in Silicon Valley's Champions League. Playing with different levels of reality became a frequently used motif in utopian-fantastic stories in the 1960s. Daniel F. Galouye had already foreseen a "world on a wire" in his novel "Simulacron - 3", which was first published in the USA in 1964: The struggle of the individual against a seemingly all-powerful faceless system that makes the individuals living within it dance like puppets on a wire. A political parable of timeless validity, which can be found in films such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Welt am Draht" and "Raumschiff Enterprise - Das nächste Jahrhundert", as well as in the film trilogy "Matrix", which was created between 1999 and 2003. Now that artificial intelligence is increasingly determining all areas of life, these dystopian visions of the future are becoming increasingly topical.

Łukasz Twarkowski and his team use this philosophical mind game of fictional existence and reality from the fantastic literature of the 1960s to condense the Munich thriller about Wirecard into a completely new story. A rousing evening of theater about the limits of our perception.