Der Überläufer

In the organizer's words:

It is the last summer of the war and the news from the Eastern Front is bad. The young soldier Walter Proska from Lyck in Masuria is assigned to a small unit that is supposed to secure a train line and has entrenched itself in a forest fortress. In scorching heat and worn down by constant attacks from swarms of mosquitoes and partisans, abandoned by his own troops, the orders of the commanding sergeant become increasingly inhumane and pointless.

The soldiers try to isolate themselves: one fights a hopeless battle against a giant pike, others lose themselves in philosophizing about life and death. And Proska asks himself more and more urgent questions: What is more important, duty or conscience? Who is the real enemy? Is it possible to act without becoming guilty? And where is Wanda, the Polish partisan girl he can't get out of his head?

World premiere
To mark the 100th birthday of Siegfried Lenz

Based on the novel by Siegried Lenz
Text version for the Hamburger Kammerspiele by Axel Schneider

Director: Kai Hufnagel
Stage: Lars Peter
Costumes: Sarah Yekani Zare
Dramaturgy: Helke Rüder

With Anke Bautzmann, Markus Feustel, Thomas Klees, Ingo Meß, Miriam Schiweck, Jascha Schütz, Paul Smollich

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