Ich bin dein Mensch

In the organizer's words:

Based on the screenplay of the same name by Maria Schrader and Jan Schomburg | Freely adapted from the story "Ich bin dein Mensch" by Emma Braslavsky

World premiere
Adapted for the Hamburger Kammerspiele by Esther Hattenbach

A true love story

Alma is not interested in love. Not even in "butterflies in the stomach" and certainly not in a bath in rose petals with romantic music and champagne. Tom is puzzled. Don't all people wish they could be pampered like this?

Alma, an antiquities researcher at a renowned museum, is taking part in a unique study, not entirely voluntarily. She is to live with a humanoid robot for three weeks with the aim of making her fall in love with him. The prototype Tom is delivered to her free of charge by a friendly employee of the company Terranaut.

However, love is out of the question. Tom's programming is based on the desires of the average German woman, and Alma is not one of them. Tom's more or less imaginative attempts to conquer Alma fail. But the more time they spend together, the more Tom is able to adapt his algorithm to Alma's wishes. He becomes more humorous, more relaxed and less obvious in his approach: he becomes someone Alma likes. The unsentimental scientist suddenly asks herself: "What could be wrong with being happy?"

But isn't love for a robot just a desolate soliloquy, a desperate attempt to escape loneliness? "I am your human" tells of an encounter that could await us in the near future. It is a melancholy comedy about questions of love, longing and what makes people human.

Director: Esther Hattenbach
Stage and costumes: Geelke Gaycken
Music: Johannes Bartmes
Dramaturgy: Anja Del Caro

With Tobias van Dieken, Lilli Fichtner, Dirk Hoener, Valerija Laubach and Ingo Meß

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