IM WESTEN NICHTS NEUES - Szenische Lesung der Original-Theaterverfassung

In the organizer's words:

1914: 19-year-old Paul Bäumer and his classmates have their A-levels in the bag and, spurred on by their class teacher, enthusiastically sign up to serve in the First World War. Paul survives four years in the constant face of death - everything seems to have a happy ending, but fate has a different plan. Paul Bäumer falls in October 1918 - on a day that was so calm and quiet on the entire front that the army report was limited to the sentence "Nothing new in the west".
His novel named after this report made Erich Maria Remarque instantly famous in 1928: young men, exposed to a hell of drumfire, trenches and poison gas attacks, give an unsparing account of everyday life in the war. They describe the traumatic alternation between idle boredom and deadly combat, between patriotic hero myth and loneliness, between speechlessness at home and comradeship in the field. Without transition, horror stands next to senselessness, the smell of a roast suckling pig next to torn bodies...

"We are at war with ourselves. Every shot that hits, hits one of us."
- Paul in the play

The young soldiers' questions are more topical today than they have been for a long time: Why am I being declared an enemy by someone I don't know, someone who doesn't know me? How can I find a place in society again after the war? What happens when social awareness of the importance of war gradually disappears? How fragile is our peace when the war simply takes place in a different place?
Remarque's novel quickly became the anti-war novel of the 20th century, a powerful plea for peace. Hope, solidarity and community break through in it. "Filmed by Hollywood, burned by the National Socialists, Im Westen nichts Neues is one of the most widely read books of all time," writes the Staatsschauspiel Dresden.

A staged reading by the original ensemble of the a.gon guest performances with video and audio projections.

With Thorsten Nindel, known from LINDENSTRASSE, where he played the role of Franz Josef Pichelsteiner, Zorro for short. Numerous other (main) roles in series such as TATORT, POLIZEIRUF 110, ROTE ROSEN and many more.