
Petty Bourgeois (Kleinbürger)
by Maxim Gorki
Director Jette Steckel
Set Rufus Didwiszus
Costumes Pauline Hüners
Music Mark Badur
Dramaturgy Anika Steinhoff
Premiere May 10, 2011
Helmut MooshammerWassilij Wassiljew Bessemjonow

Barbara SchnitzlerAkulina Iwanowna

Ole LagerpuschPjotr

Natali SeeligTatjana

Felix GoeserNil

Markus GrafPertschichin

Olivia GräserPolja

Katrin WichmannJelena Nikolajewna Kriwzowa

Peter JordanTeterew

Thomas SchumacherSchischkin

Mark BadurLive-Music
Wassilij Wassiljew Bessemjonow
Akulina Iwanowna
Pjotr
Tatjana
Nil
Pertschichin
Polja
Jelena Nikolajewna Kriwzowa
Teterew
Schischkin
Live-Music
Throughout the three-hour performance the production relies on […] the authenticity of its actors. They portray the characters with increasing depth and intensity until one theatrical highlight follows the next. […] So, in the end, it is not the politics which entrances us. It is the love stories and intergenerational conflict which touch us most.” It works. A couple spectators in the parquet actually get up and say, “Something has to change, I won’t put up with this any longer!” […] In her production of Maxim Gorky’s Philistines, young director Jette Steckel gets serious – and a bit too heavy-handed at this point. […] Nonetheless, the constant winds of change which blow through her first work on the DT’s main stage are appealing. And it is impressive how Felix Goeser portraysthe revolutionary Nil without irony and with an optimism we can believe in.
Throughout the three-hour performance the production relies on […] the authenticity of its actors. They portray the characters with increasing depth and intensity until one theatrical highlight follows the next. […] So, in the end, it is not the politics which entrances us. It is the love stories and intergenerational conflict which touch us most.”