Geschlossene Gesellschaft

In the organizer's words:

Students at Ruhr-Universität Bochum show Jean-Paul Sartre's Closed Society

Thinking about your own life all alone. Where does that even lead? Recapitulating the years. Why did things turn out the way they are now? But the loneliness and silence all around soon fade. The noise, the roaring and the chatter fill your ears. Can't they be quiet? This really is hell. And nobody is here by mistake.

The question is: why have these three been put together?

They don't know each other, have nothing in common, but still there must be a connection... without rest, without a break, without a reflection, united and lonely. Forever? What remains after death? A memory, a familiar melody, a debt? There is no going back and no erasing. People become what they are. Or is man not rather what he has not made?

Between the realization of their own existence, the protagonists in Jean-Paul Sartre's Closed Society fathom their existence, sometimes lying, sometimes truthful, sometimes evil, sometimes really good, and why they are where fate or chance has brought them. What does a human life weigh and who are we really?

Line by line, the protagonists' life stories are illustrated until they finally see through the game: "Hell is the others."

Play: Tanja Kiewsky, Gianluca Hille, Isabell Weiss, Emrys Perera, Leon Gleser

Director: Lina Kempchen