GELD IST KLASSE

In the organizer's words:

Wealth kills democracy. Wealth destroys social justice. It destroys all the foundations of human life. Because excess wealth is highly concentrated, uncontrolled power. And it is growing rapidly worldwide. High time for a theatrical attack on excess wealth! Deploring poverty, exploitation and social discrimination is no longer enough. We must talk about wealth, we must talk about money, we must finally talk about the super-rich.

This is the mission of MONEY IS CLASS: millionaire heiress Marlene Engelhorn, theatre-maker Volker Lösch, actress Marlene Reiter and author Lothar Kittstein show how high wealth turns into undemocratic power, how money and (in)justice are connected, how excess wealth disguises itself to the outside world and immunizes itself against criticism - and they ask how it can be stopped in order to save democracy and make a good life possible for everyone. In doing so, they combine documentary material with personal stories and grotesque play scenes to create a hybrid whole that is intended to do one thing above all: A desire for change. Marlene Engelhorn is the first rich person to speak self-critically about wealth on the theater stage. Through these insights into the closed-off world of the super-rich, MONEY IS CLASS makes the cognitive process vivid. It becomes clear that change can only be achieved together - the poor, the rich, the public and politicians must become equally active.

Director: Therese Lösch and ensemble
Performing: Marlene Engelhorn, Volker Lösch, Marlene Reiter

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