Tod eines Handlungsreisenden

In the organizer's words:

by Arthur Miller

German by Volker Schlöndorff and Florian Hopf
[Recommended for ages 15 and up]

Willy Loman is a traveling salesman - and has been for 40 years. Business is good. Or rather, they have been going well. For some time now, they have not been coming, Willy is about to be made redundant and his sons, Happy and Biff, are also going downhill. But Biff was always the big hit! Plagued by business failure, the ever-increasing pressure of capitalist optimization and the disintegration of his meticulously constructed and internalized family image, Willy loses himself in a rapid maelstrom of illusion and reality. A romanticized past and a frustrating present give rise to a gruelling life lie, in which Willy's sample case becomes not only working material but also a symbol for the expiry of the "Loman" pattern.

Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" is Ronny Jakubaschk's second production in Heidelberg after "Minna von Barnhelm" and is dedicated to a play in which comedy and tragedy go hand in hand.