Der zerbrochne Krug - Heinrich von Kleist

In the organizer's words:

Heinrich von Kleist's drama The Broken Jug was premiered in Weimar in 1808 by none other than Goethe - it was a resounding failure. Why? The audience felt irritated by the play. In it, a judge has to solve his own case, and what's more, in order to pull his head out of the noose, the judge does not do justice, but injustice. Kleist undermines his audience's trust in a jurisdiction that had only been transferred from the nobility to the middle classes and peasants a few decades earlier, in the Age of Enlightenment. People were no longer subject to the arbitrariness of the aristocratic judges. In the play, the hope of an objective administration of justice appears to be an illusion. Kleist brings to the stage a corrupt judge from the peasant milieu who abuses his office to cover up his blackmail of the girl Eve. The consequences of this moral failure are immediate: The superior judicial authority, embodied by the court councillor Walter from the city of Utrecht, experiences a revaluation. In his play, Kleist shows how much the functioning of the judiciary depends on the moral integrity of its representatives. He succeeds in creating wonderfully enigmatic and comical exchanges between his characters - certainly one reason for the play's enduring popularity.

The production of The Broken Jug is created with the established, professional ensemble of Szene 10, which has already staged The Physicists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

The actors are:
Aless Wiesemann, Thos Renneberg, Sebastian Hartmann, Thilo Matschke, Raphael Batzik

20€/15€
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