Biedermann und die Brandstifter

In the organizer's words:

A lesson without a lesson
By Max Frisch

There are fires in the city, again and again. Arsonists are on the loose, disguised as 'harmless peddlers' - and the well-off Gottlieb Biedermann and his wife Babette let them into their house. They are heading for disaster with their eyes wide open, because Biedermann in particular refuses to see the truth until the end. After all, this is "the best and safest disguise" because "nobody believes it."

It is not so much humanity and good nature as cowardice and vanity that determine Biedermann's actions. He is not a tragic hero in an unavoidable situation, we do not suffer with him, but rather shake our heads in this tragicomic burlesque when he finally even wants to make the arsonists, whose flattery and audacity he has nothing to counter, his friends, while his attic is already full of gasoline...

Biedermann, "knowing how flammable the world is", lies to himself in an almost grotesque manner right to the end. The chorus, the, albeit unheard, voice of conscience, hints at a core message of the play: "Much can avoid reason." And yet in Max Frisch's famous "Lehrstück ohne Lehre", the question that always arises is not only who the arsonists are, but also the one that Biedermann himself addresses to us: "What would you have done? And when?"

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