A look into the future! Using participatory formats, Andres Veiel has written a play based on a collaboration with academics and citizens on the subjects of work, finance, the environment, etc., which deals with the past in the future: in 2028, a committee of inquiry asks who is responsible for the events of the years 2018 to 2028. After Italy’s withdrawal from the EU in 2023, Europe finds itself facing one of the biggest crises in its history – reason enough to take countermeasures and introduce an unconditional basic income in the rest of the EU. But an economic crash is unstoppable. Can the cause be found in a random chain of the best intentions? Andres Veiel’s aim is to confront conflicting visions of the future beyond the confines of legislative periods or political party interests. So both utopian and dystopian moments are equally up for discussion. What steps are were tracing? And which are we leaving behind?
Coproduction with The Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace, sponsored by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a resolution of the German Bundestag.
Information on the research and the overall project can also be found at www.welchezukunft.org
Coproduction with The Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace, sponsored by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a resolution of the German Bundestag.
Information on the research and the overall project can also be found at www.welchezukunft.org
Director Andres Veiel
Costumes Michaela Barth
Video Daniel Hengst
Music Fabian Kalker
Movement and aerial acrobatics choreography Sasha Krohn
Dramaturgy Ulrich Beck
World premiere
28 September 2018, Deutsches Theater
Co-production with the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss
28 September 2018, Deutsches Theater
Co-production with the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss
Kathleen MorgeneyerYldune Kaayan
Thorsten HierseHans "Onz" Perret
Susanne-Marie WrageFranca Roloeg
Paul GrillRappo Rosser
Frank SeppelerStefan Tarp
Jörg PoseFrerich Konnst
Celia Bähr / Luise HartSina, Yldune's daughter
Jürgen HuthJürgen Bandowski
Fabian Kalker / Nicolas FehrLive music
Yldune Kaayan
Hans "Onz" Perret
Franca Roloeg
Rappo Rosser
Stefan Tarp
Frerich Konnst
Celia Bähr / Luise Hart
Sina, Yldune's daughter
Jürgen Bandowski
Fabian Kalker / Nicolas Fehr
Live music
With English surtitles
22. January 2019 19.30 - 21.15
Follow-up discussion with Andres Veiel, Moderation: Stefan Reinecke
Tickets
Tickets & prices
| Price | Regular |
|---|---|
| Preisgruppe 1 | 42,00 EUR |
| Preisgruppe 2 | 34,00 EUR |
| Preisgruppe 3 | 26,00 EUR |
| Preisgruppe 4 | 18,00 EUR |
| Preisgruppe 5 | 10,00 EUR |
Tickets for pupils and students: DT/Kammerspiele 9 € (at the box office only); Box/Saal 8 or 6 € (online available)
With English surtitles
12. February 2019 20.00 - 21.45
19.30 Introduction – Saal
Follow-up discussion with Thilo Bode (Founder and Director of Foodwatch and former CEO of Greenpeace) and Andres Veiel
Moderation: Stefan Reinecke – Saal
Moderation: Stefan Reinecke – Saal
Tickets
Tickets & prices
| Price | Regular |
|---|---|
| Preisgruppe 1 | 42,00 EUR |
| Preisgruppe 2 | 34,00 EUR |
| Preisgruppe 3 | 26,00 EUR |
| Preisgruppe 4 | 18,00 EUR |
| Preisgruppe 5 | 10,00 EUR |
Tickets for pupils and students: DT/Kammerspiele 9 € (at the box office only); Box/Saal 8 or 6 € (online available)
With English surtitles
2. March 2019 19.30 - 21.15
Follow-up discussion with Andres Veiel and Michael Bohmeyer (founder of the association "Mein Grundeinkommen"). Moderation: Stefan Reinecke
Tickets
Tickets & prices
| Price | Regular |
|---|---|
| Preisgruppe 1 | 42,00 EUR |
| Preisgruppe 2 | 34,00 EUR |
| Preisgruppe 3 | 26,00 EUR |
| Preisgruppe 4 | 18,00 EUR |
| Preisgruppe 5 | 10,00 EUR |
Tickets for pupils and students: DT/Kammerspiele 9 € (at the box office only); Box/Saal 8 or 6 € (online available)
Coproduction with
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Box
19.30
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Director: René Pollesch
Deutsches Theater
20.30 - 21.40
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With English surtitles
Performance changed
Director: Hanna Rudolph
Due to a case of illness we are sorry to cancel The Day I Was No Longer Me (Der Tag, als ich nicht ich mehr war) by Roland Schimmelpfennig. Instead, we will show Diary of a Madman (Tagebuch eines Wahnsinnigen) by Nikolai Gogol. Tickets already bought will be refunded or exchanged at the box office within two weeks.
Kammerspiele
20.30 - 21.45
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A profound theatre laboratory, an exuberant piece of intellectual theatre, conceptually a successful research experiment. Veiel offers up [...] a beguiling thought experiment, a cleverly thought-out dystopia, which is never content with simple questions or simple solutions and often touches on the problems of reality. [...]
A profound theatre laboratory, an exuberant piece of intellectual theatre, conceptually a successful research experiment.
The result is an engrossing drama that skillfully avoids preaching or propagandizing [...] The script by Mr. Veiel, a noted filmmaker, and his collaborator Jutta Doberstein does a fine job dramatizing the complex ideas developed during the workshops, explaining complex hypothetical economic and political scenarios in clever and nuanced ways. The tight eight-person cast spends a lot of time explaining what went wrong and how, but the fluid and sleekly futuristic staging, featuring video projections, stark lighting and some onstage acrobatics, holds the audience's attention well.
The result is an engrossing drama that skillfully avoids preaching or propagandizing [...]