Kabale und Liebe

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by Friedrich Schiller
In German language

What is it about? The musician's daughter Luise and Ferdinand, the son of a high minister, are full of affection and passion for each other. They want to escape conventions, their parents and the duke. They dream of an improbable future that has yet to be created: "Then, when the barriers of difference collapse - when all the hated shells of class fall away from us - when people are just people." But as soon as their love becomes public, it can no longer be defended against external pressure. Luise and Ferdinand fight against a toxic intrigue that leads to disaster. Why go there? Love, jealousy, intrigue. Rebellion against those in power, their own parents, patriarchal society. More than almost any other literary work, Schiller's "Kabale und Liebe" is a passionate testimony to the protest of the young against the old. It tells of the necessary struggles for self-determined life plans. In her musical and playful production, director Charlotte Sprenger questions today's class and power relations. Insider info: Schiller was inspired by many role models and sources for his "bourgeois tragedy": From Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" to Lessing's "Emilia Galotti", to well-known Mannheim locations such as the Planken and the Paradeplatz. At the Mannheim National Theatre, he was given refuge from the repressive conditions in the Württemberg Empire as an in-house author. This content has been machine translated.