Alles über Autos

In the organizer's words:

"There she is, our future. It is equipped with the best engine and the latest tires, deep tread, so that it only ever goes forwards, always forwards, never backwards."

Everything about cars is a play about people who depend on the automotive industry, about generational differences and existential fears, the increasing irrelevance of combustion engines and about climate protection. A road trip through our motorized society.

The luck of the earth sits behind the wheel of a car. And it races along the German autobahn at 250 km/h. The car is more than just a means of transportation. It is a way of life, the pride and joy of a nation. But is the dream of the car still possible today? As the climate crisis worsens and new technologies slowly push old ones out of the market, jobs are still being pitted against environmental protection.

Sunan Gus and Louisa Sausner's texts humorously combine criticism of the automotive industry with empathy for the living spaces that depend on it. Based on personal memories and interviews with employees in the automotive industry, "Alles über Autos" casts a sometimes realistic, sometimes absurd spotlight on a fictitious factory hall through the ages. In the 1970s, a young married couple dreams of the ideal life, a striking worker meets a self-confident entrepreneur in a disused factory and two robot arms without tasks face existential questions.