Onkel Werner

In the organizer's words:

by Jan Friedrich
after Anton Chekhov
world premiere
For ages 15 and up

At Pension Werner, somewhere in the (East) German provinces, the guests stay away. So Werner has plenty of time and anger. Not even alcohol can help his messed-up life. To make matters worse, his ex-sister-in-law has moved in with him. Her career as a politician is over, but now she's bullying everyone here. But Werner won't let people like that cloud his mind any longer. Not even Michael, the emergency paramedic who plants trees on a voluntary basis, is notoriously overworked and just as unhappy. Werner is convinced that everything is going down the drain anyway.
A good hundred years after Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, Jan Friedrich takes a look at our present day and searches for the driving forces behind our actions or inactions. What makes us what we are? And where does it come from, the monstrous shift to the right in our society?

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Directed by Jan Friedrich
Stage, costume Max Schwidlinski
Music Nicki Frenking
Dramaturgy Katrin Enders

Alexandra, former politician Iris Albrecht
Elena, her young friend Marie-Joelle Blazejewski
Sonja, her daughter Luise Hart
Werner, her ex-brother-in-law Nico Link
Marianne, her ex-mother-in-law Catherine Stoyan
Michael, an emergency paramedic Philipp Kronenberg
Ingo, Sonja's godfather Norman Groll

Duration of performance: 1 h 45 min (without intermission)