ATLAS

In the organizer's words:

Late summer 2019 - "Fridays for Future" fills the streets every week. In the European elections, "the climate" will be decisive. The whole world is suddenly talking about the 2-degree limit, planetary tipping points and global transformation.

Five years later. The climate has largely disappeared from the headlines. There are still reports of disasters - such as the floods in the Ahr valley, the droughts in Brandenburg and the flooding in southern Germany. However, the climate crisis hardly plays a role in the 2024 European elections or the state elections. The weekly protests have disappeared or become localized. On the one hand, we are now feeling the effects of global warming on an almost daily basis, while on the other, the political discourse is filled with new topics. How can this be? The CORRECTIV climate editorial team, author and director Calle Fuhr and the Deutsches SchauSpielHaus production team asked themselves this question. We didn't find the answer, the situation is too complex for that. But in our research, we came across a network of climate deniers and climate sceptics that has hardly been talked about so far: The "Atlas Network". This is where Trump supporters, right-wing populists and people who appear to belong to the political center cavort. Through targeted PR campaigns, studies funded by "fossil fuel" companies and the systematic spreading of doubt, think tanks, lobby associations and private institutes have made a huge contribution to pushing the climate crisis out of the public eye. That's why this evening we're going to talk about how this network works, who is involved in Germany and how it could become possible to get one step closer to climate justice again.

Calle Fuhr has recently attracted attention with his work on real estate mogul René Benko and the large corporation LEAG. "ATLAS" is his first work at the SchauSpielHaus.

The "ATLAS" project is funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation's Zero - Climate Neutral Art and Culture Projects program. Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

With: Josefine Israel, Sasha Rau, Maximilian Scheidt, Samuel Weiss

Director: Calle Fuhr

Stage: Julia Oschatz

Costumes: Jana Sophia Schweers

Video: Marcel Hein Marcel Hein

Dramaturgy: Ralf Fiedler

Further information: ATLAS | Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg