Fahrenheit 451

In the organizer's words:

What if culture and freedom are at risk

Interdisciplinary production

Guy Montag is a fireman - not to put out fires. He and his colleagues burn books. The people where the books are discovered also disappear. In an authoritarian society - universities have been closed and former professors are seen as potential enemies of the state - Montag leads a conformist life with his wife Mildred. Montag becomes increasingly aware of the monstrosity of social conditions through his encounter with Clarisse, who refuses to allow her intellectual freedom to be taken away. Forbidden to obtain books, he begins to read and eventually finds himself in the crosshairs of the system. The existence of books becomes a symbol of freedom of thought, the possibility of counter-worlds and otherness.

At Theater Bielefeld, Ray Bradbury's terrifyingly visionary science fiction novel from 1953 is given a congenial extension with songs by the British band Radiohead and a resonance chamber for questions that arise when freedom and culture are endangered.