Kabale und Liebe

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by Friedrich Schiller
In German language

Love, intrigue and the struggle for a self-determined life - Charlotte Sprenger's production tells of power and powerlessness in a corrupt world. Mrs. Miller is nervous. Her daughter Luise didn't come home last night. Is she seeing Ferdinand von Walter, the president's son, again? There is no room for love between a bourgeois girl and an aristocratic offspring here! In the course of just one day, events come thick and fast: To secure his position, President von Walter forces his son into a strategic marriage with Lady Milford. Secretary Wurm orchestrates a perfidious media intrigue to break Ferdinand and Luise's love. Ferdinand increasingly loses control, Luise remains resistant. Meanwhile, Frau von Kalb has long since settled into her detached decadence and the lady plays her own games. This corrupt, patriarchal society, in which freedom is only for the powerful, only knows participation, submission or escape! In 1782, the 23-year-old Schiller flees from the Württemberg Empire to exile in Mannheim to escape a ban on writing and the threat of imprisonment in a fortress. The first sketch for "Kabale und Liebe" - a passionate testimony to his criticism of the authorities in the state, in the family and in love - was written on the way. He studies the mechanics of emotional violence, driving his characters to the furthest extremes of human existence: betrayal, murder, suicide. In Charlotte Sprenger's production, Schiller's patriarchs and villains, lovers and liberation addicts are thrust onto an exposed stage and in front of an ever-present camera. Live film and stage are both a setting and an instrument of power, creating a timeless, hypermedia space. The characters are part of this system - how do they position themselves? Where is their own room for maneuver? Are emancipation and liberation even possible? This content has been machine translated.