ELEKTRA – 750 PS Vergangenheitsüberwältigung

In the organizer's words:

Agamemnon is dead. The celebrated war hero is murdered immediately after his return home by his wife Clytemnestra and her new lover Aigisthus in revenge for the sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia. The siblings Electra and Orestes then vow to take revenge for the dastardly murder of their beloved father, and the family curse of eternal vengeance spins on and on relentlessly - right into the German present. In this radical rewriting by Lorenz Nolting and Sofie Boiten, Elektra's rage is no longer directed at her own family's dark past, but at the burdened family history of one of Germany's richest business dynasties: the Quandt family, whose prosperity is based not least on the years of exploitation of Nazi forced laborers by their ancestors.

The ancient revenge complex is applied to a current sense of guilt and thus raises central questions: How does a subsequent generation deal with the legacy of great guilt? What does responsibility mean in the midst of collective repression? And what can resistance or justice look like - even beyond archaic violence and divine order?

With their version of Elektra, Lorenz Nolting and his team reveal not only the persistence of power structures, but also the close interweaving of profit and fascism.