Die Räuber

In the organizer's words:

A totalitarian state, two irreconcilable brothers, a broken family. While Franz works his way up to the highest ranks of the regime as an unscrupulous populist, Karl leads a brutal rebellion - but his fight against tyranny threatens to turn him into a tyrant himself.

Schiller's epochal family drama is set in a near future in which Germany is under the rule of an authoritarian system. After the death of the old patriarch Moor, his children fight over the inheritance of the family empire. At the same time, they struggle for power, freedom and sovereignty of interpretation. Between the idealistic but increasingly radical Karl and the scheming demagogue Franz stands Amalia - an uncompromising thinker who exposes the hatred of both sides. Can there still be a future in which the freedom of the individual rules without oppressing others?

House director Matthias Köhler questions the key text of the Sturm und Drang movement about the principles of human action in an increasingly immoral world. When does rebellion become a duty, and how far can it go?