Thomas Ebermann & Thorsten Mense - NORMAL - Eine Besichtigung des Wahns

In the organizer's words:

NORMAL - A tour of madness. An evening against irrationalism and instrumental reason
Pandemic, climate change, wars, tax returns, traffic jams - crisis after crisis, with no end in sight. Some are fleeing into conspiracy beliefs or outright fascism. They are the end-time warriors in animal costumes, following QAnon all the way to the Capitol. They are the tin foil hat wearers demonstrating against chemtrails and forced vaccination. They are the incels, the Reichsbürger, the fighters against the "Great Reset" and the "Great Replacement". The others cling to common sense. They defend the expert against the charlatan, reason against delusion. They are industrious, consider nations and property systems to be as natural as the strong defeating the weak. They know that collateral damage is not nice, but unavoidable: The starving, the homeless, the
freezing to death every winter, the drowned in the Mediterranean. They only believe in horoscopes when they advise them to do what society demands of people anyway. Their reason is instrumental, reason in the service of irrationality. It's all about the how, not the why. Effectiveness replaces any thought of a
human-friendly organization of the world. Even in thinking, only what is useful is permitted. Only those who are productive are worth living. Normal is anyone who is healthy and able to work. The path from self-optimization to eugenics is shorter than the treadmill in the gym: instrumentally rational and murderously delusional at the same time. This is the normality that democrats are defending, even against the right-wingers who are advocating a new, even more inhuman "normal". And everyone celebrates the normal
people, the simple, hard-working ones who have been betrayed by intellectuals, lifestyle leftists and elites - which only serves the cynical purpose of perpetuating the social position of the subaltern. In general, the normality that is promised to be quickly restored in every crisis is a bleak hope. For the
normality, "that things will go on like this", is the real catastrophe. On stage and screen, we see the completely normal delusion and the delusion of normality, the pathogenic in the normal and the irrational that arises from it. It will be as funny as Adorno's steel baths are funny.

By and with
Thomas Ebermann and Thorsten Mense
Artistic collaboration: Florian Thamer

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