Zum letzten Mal: Die Verschwörung des Fiesko zu Genua: Ein republikanisches Trauerspiel von Friedrich Schiller

In the organizer's words:

Genoa is in turmoil. The old Doge Andreas Doria wants to transfer his rule to his nephew Gianettino, a young tyrant obsessed with power. The freedom-loving supporters of the Republic place all their hopes in Fiesco, the Count of Lavagna. He is to lead a conspiracy to bring down Gianettino Doria. Everyone is just waiting for his signal to revolt. But Fiesco alienates everyone with his behavior. In front of everyone, he courts the proud Juliet, Gianettino's sister, without regard for his wife Leonore. He obviously takes the side of those he actually wanted to fight. He acts like an unprincipled bon vivant with no political ambition. It's all a facade, as it soon turns out.
Fiesco is playing an elaborate game with which he wants to overthrow Gianettino. But the fact that he is so adept at putting on and changing masks soon worries even his closest confidants. What is Fiesko's true face? He's a player and doesn't even know it himself: Should he fight for the Republic and then stand back, or would he rather seize sole rule himself and become Genoa's next duke? Why give up rule when you can have it? This is how he spins the threads of the conspiracy. But to what end? Does he succumb to the Eros of power?

It is impressive what a dramatic character experiment the very young Friedrich Schiller put down on paper with "Fiesko". This exciting conspiracy story, which is based on events in Genoa around 1547, is Schiller's second play after "The Robbers". In order to tell his story as authentically as possible, he studied the everyday history and historical documents of the time intensively, albeit in order to use them for the purposes of his drama and not to reproduce them truthfully. The historical Fiesco is described as strong, cunning, beautiful, a lover of women and irrepressibly ambitious. These characteristics alone made him the ideal protagonist for Schiller's play. He developed a character for the stage who is impossible to grasp, who unites both the tyrant and the liberator from tyranny. Schiller's Fiesko is a man who stumbles over his own abilities and sacrifices his political convictions to the temptation of power. How timeless Schiller's dramas are!