EINGESCHLOSSENE GESELLSCHAFT (UA)

In the organizer's words:

The story takes place on a Friday afternoon in the staff room of the Rudi Dutschke Grammar School. Six teachers are still sitting there for various reasons and are more or less on the same page. The father of one of the pupils interrupts the bleak scene and demands that the teachers discuss his son's Latin grade, which is jeopardizing his admission to the Abitur. And when they refuse, he takes them hostage without further ado and forces them to hold a very unconventional report conference at gunpoint.

As in Sartre's "Closed Society", the players are condemned to deal with each other without any possibility of escape. The bourgeois facades soon crumble and more and more personal abysses come to light. In the end, the question arises as to whether these people are even entitled to judge a student . . .

A deep black comedy in which the teachers' room becomes the scene of a nightmare.

Jan Weiler was editor-in-chief of SZ-Magazin until 2005 and had his breakthrough as an author with his fictional but autobiographically inspired and very humorous novel "Maria, ihm schmeckt's nicht!", for the 2009 film adaptation of which he also wrote the screenplay. EINGESCHLOSSENE GESELLSCHAFT was first published as a radio play. This was followed in 2022 by the film adaptation directed by Sönke Wortmann, who saw the comedy as a kind of sequel to his cinema adaptation of FRAU MÜLLER MUSS WEG - the play by Lutz Hübner and Sarah Nemitz, which ran for 162 performances at the WBT.

Production | Tanja Weidner
Stage & Costumes | Annette Wolf

Performers | Florian Bender [ Bernd Vogel] | Rosana Cleve [ Bettina Schuster] | Gregor Eckert [ Manfred Prohaska] | Katharina Hannappel [ Policewoman] | Ivana Langmajer [ Heidi Lohmann] | Jürgen Lorenzen [ Holger Arndt] | Niclas Kunder [Peter Mertens] | Meinhard Zanger [ Klaus Engelhardt]