Wieviel Zeit (How much time) is the motto of the DT season 22/23. "Social acceleration" (Hartmut Rosa) has turned time into a scarce resource. Not because less time is available to us but because we have to pack more and more into it. The coronavirus pandemic has not changed the logic of growth. At the same time, growth itself can be questioned as a concept. And so to ask How much time includes asking how long we have left to make transformations. And to look for places where time eludes rigid structures – when we’re on a high, have fun, or simply waste it.

Illustrations from the 2022/23 season: Frank Höhne, born in 1981, leads a modest, happy life in Berlin. He’s affectionately called Dad by three girls and is a househusband. He asks for no more from this fading life. He lacks eloquence, elegance, enterprise and eminence. And that’s just the letter E. This alone shows that illustration and the attempt to mitigate said Es are the only things left to him. Since he can remember, mitigation has been his strategy to solving everyday family problems and what he sees as society’s increasing lack of inhibition. He mitigates this by observing, then recording his observations and hanging them on the digital clothesline, the Internet, for review. That’s what he does. And it’s enough for him.