Nebenan

In the organizer's words:

Shortly before leaving for an important casting for an action blockbuster in London, the well-known and successful film actor Daniel enters a corner pub in Berlin to learn his lines over a quick coffee and wait for a cab to the airport. A regular named Bruno, a stranger to him, starts a conversation without being asked. It turns out that Bruno lives in the same building as Daniel and has been receiving his mail for years. In GDR times, the previously unknown neighbor even lived in the current apartment of the star and his family - before it was converted into an expensive loft, unaffordable for him. What begins as a harmless pub conversation about Daniel's movie roles quickly turns into a disturbing assault: Bruno provokes him with ever more intimate and juicy details from his private life. All attempts to get rid of him fail. It soon becomes clear that the actor will not make it to London today, but that will be the least of his worries. The worlds of a West German film star and an East German victim of gentrification and the loser of reunification collide unchecked in Daniel Kehlmann's blackly humorous chamber play "Next Door". A bitterly wicked game of cat and mouse with razor-sharp dialog and surprising twists.