PHOTO: © Birgit Hupfeld

Wir, Kinder der Sonne

Name: Wir, Kinder der Sonne
Start: 2025-08-29T19:30+0200
End: 2025-08-29T21:00+0200
Location: ROTTSTR 5 THEATER

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In the organizer's words:

We, Children of the Sun
after Maxim Gorky
In a version by Alexander Ritter
A production of the Rottstr 5 Theater

With
Monika Bujinski, Hella Birgit Mascus, Yvonne Forster

Director
Alexander Ritter

Assistance
Jasmina Dittrich, Franka Siegmund

Set design
Alexander Ritter

Lighting
Simon Krämer

Choreography
Antoinette Laurent

photos
Birgit Hupfeld

production
Alexander Ritter, Oliver Paolo Thomas

Trailer:
Siegersbusch Film, Wuppertal

Duration: approx. 65 minutes

"Because you are full and well dressed! Hate is blind, but you shine, and he sees you!"

A summer evening on a country estate. Against the backdrop of a spreading epidemic, the three women Lisa, Jelena and Olga negotiate our society and how to deal with the masses of people who feel neither heard nor seen.

"Only millions are perceived on earth, not hundreds... and hatred is growing among the millions. You intoxicate yourselves with beautiful words and thoughts and do not see this, but I, I have seen how hatred breaks out in the streets, and people, having become wild and angry, destroy each other with relish... One day they will come upon you full of hatred and rage..."

Loosely based on Maxim Gorky's drama "Children of the Sun" and with texts by Carolin Emke and Kae Tempest, among others, an evening was created that deals with enemies of democracy, hatred and the rift in our society and asks the question of how we can counter this hatred.

INVITED TO THE PRIVATE THEATER DAYS HAMBURG 2022.
PROPOSED FOR THE FAUST 2022.

PRESS RELEASES

"A remarkable performance at Theater Rottstraße 5 in Bochum shows what independent theater can achieve in these memorable pandemic weeks. On the small stage: a precise, excellently acted commentary on the corona situation, presented on the basis of a play that is well over 100 years old." (WAZ)

"Against the backdrop of a spreading cholera epidemic, the three protagonists - wonderfully played by Monika Bujinski, Hella Birgit Mascus and Yvonne Forster - negotiate the question of how people should be and according to which standards coexistence should be ordered." (Stadtspiegel)

"At Theater Rottstraße, director Alexander Ritter breaks the drama down to three core characters. (...) and immerses the play in a dreamlike setting: on a bright stage reminiscent of the greatest Chekhov successes of old master Peter Stein, the three characters revolve around each other in just 70 minutes. (...) These three characters also linger between self-pity and middling relationship problems in a busy, chatty inactivity, just as the author described. (...) All three of them play it extremely well." (WAZ)

"The cheers in the well-attended hall are huge. It's been a long time since free theater has had such an important voice as on this evening. Even after the long, exhausting lockdown break, the theater makers on Rottstraße can be relied upon." (WAZ)

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Price information:

Tickets can be reserved by phone (between 12.00 and 18.00), via Whatsapp, Telegram, email or Facebook message. Email: karten@rottstr.de 0163 - 761 50 71 Reserved tickets must be collected on the day of the performance between 19.00 and 19.20, otherwise they will be returned to free sale.20 hrs, otherwise the reservation expires and the tickets go back on sale. Reserved tickets cannot be sent and can only be paid for at the Box Office. Only cash payment is possible on site 17 € - normal price incl. program booklet & 1 free drink 10 € - reduced* incl. program booklet

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