Gerd Dudenhöffer spielt Heinz Becker DOD - Das Leben ist das Ende

In the organizer's words:

DOD - the program that was brought to such an abrupt halt by the pandemic in March 2020 will be revived in a revised version in spring 2025. The few dates with this program and also increased demand led Gerd Dudenhöffer to consider a resumption.

Cemetery bells. Sonorous. Gloomy. Suddenly cold white light. Heinz Becker comes home from the funeral into the kitchen. In his black suit; 5 Callas in his hand: "I forgot to throw them in the grave." Instead, they are now lying on the kitchen table - what can you do?

"Do you want another beer?" Obligatory question - in a previous life. From now on, he has to decide for himself. Familiar routine? Broken away. Nothing is as it was. His everyday life - collapsed. And this sadness. Sorrowful thoughtfulness. This awkward helplessness. And slowly he begins to ponder, to reflect, to process...

For more than 30 years, Gerd Dudenhöffer has been playing his real-life satirical, grotesquely authentic artificial character as a personified caricature of the narrow-minded, universal person like you and me, the average Joe, whom he pointedly exposes, with perfect timing, sparingly applied facial expressions, devoid of any political correctness, always of course with hearty, often unintentional, because 'Heinz-typical' humour.

DOD - theatrical "cabaret noir", stringently staged, black and white, light and dark, skillfully maintaining the balance between tragedy and comedy. Tragicomic, that is. Because Heinz is Heinz. Deathly certain'.