Die Dreigroschenoper

In the organizer's words:

The story of the struggle between two not entirely respectable businessmen, the beggar clan king Peachum and the burglar king Macheath, known as Mackie Messer, advertised as a "play with music" at its premiere in 1928, was essentially the first German-language musical. Bertolt Brecht wrote the text together with Elisabeth Hauptmann, while Kurt Weill composed the immortal music. The three of them achieved legendary worldwide success.

With song lines such as "And the shark, he has teeth and he wears them on his face", or "Soldiers live on the cannons", "Whether they want to or not, they are ready. That's the sexual bondage", "However you turn it, however you push it, first comes the food, then comes the morality", "For this is how man lives, that he can forget so thoroughly that he is a man after all", "Who wouldn't want to live in peace and harmony, but the circumstances are not like that." The Brecht/Weill duo created catchy hits that still resonate today.

In the St. Pauli Theater's new version by Peter Jordan and Leonhard Koppelmann, the songs are pushed to the front again in all their force; they are the secret center of the reinterpretation. And if you look around, not only in the small world of the neighborhood, but also in the big world of politics, you have to realize that not much has changed since Brecht's analysis. Or as he writes: "Who does not want a paradise on earth? But the circumstances, do they allow it? - No, they just don't allow it." Rarely has social criticism been presented in such a palatable and tongue-in-cheek manner. Nothing has changed in this respect either.

Price information:

St. Pauli Theater ticket hotline: 040 / 4711 0 666, st-pauli-theater.de and at all known advance booking offices