Des Kaisers neue Kleider – Mottenzeit PREMIERE

In the organizer's words:

by Sascha Löschner based on Hans Christian Andersen

The Emperor is vain, megalomaniac and bankrupt. He wants to be the most beautiful man in the universe. He doesn't care about his starving people, the main thing is that he can use the taxes to have new and ever more magnificent clothes tailored. He pays no attention to his daughter and sees his ministers as mere order takers. He only actively hunts moths himself, as they threaten his most precious possession. When the emperor finally captures the last surviving moth, his daughter's only friend, the princess flees into the forest. There she joins forces with two poor weavers who want to teach the emperor a lesson. Will they succeed? Will the moth be set free again?

Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale from 1837 is still relevant today, telling of the arbitrariness of power and that it always takes courageous people who dare to speak the truth.

In connection with this production, the Art & Education team is offering an advanced training workshop for primary school teachers; you can find more information here.

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