»Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui« von Bertolt Brecht

In the organizer's words:

by Bertolt Brecht // Director: Christian Weise

Chicago during the economic crisis: the vegetable trade is faltering, the merchants are desperate. The leading cauliflower merchants want to boost trade again, but they don't want gangster Arturo Ui to get involved. Instead, they spin their own intrigue and persuade a respected city politician to commit corruption. But Ui knows how to play off the weaknesses of the others against each other and his political and business career quickly takes off. He realizes that violence alone is not enough to expand his power - manipulating the public is also part of the game. In his megalomania, he does not stop at old companions or the city limits of Chicago.

Bertolt Brecht wrote this parable on the career of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialists while in exile in 1941. According to Brecht, locating the biting satire in the American gangster milieu was his "attempt to explain Hitler's rise to the capitalist world by placing him in a milieu familiar to it". The events thus do not present themselves as fateful doom, but as the consequence of the prevailing conditions with the cooperation of many. Fascism is not an isolated historical case, but the continuation of business by other means, which is still possible today.

Director Christian Weise and his team create visually stunning and musical worlds in which they playfully subject theater classics to contemporary scrutiny.