A DT Jung* Production
Nathan
based on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
in a transcription by Joanna Praml and Dorle Trachternach
in a transcription by Joanna Praml and Dorle Trachternach
Oh God, holy shit: the parable of the ring.
A blended family at the time of the religious crusades in the melting pot that is Jerusalem. Wise Jewish merchant Nathan discovers that his house has been burnt down and his stepdaughter Recha has barely escaped death. During the search for Recha’s saviour – and amid power struggles plotted by various religious groups – Lessing has Nathan tell the parable of the ring as an allegory on tolerance and humanity which demonstrates through metaphor how schisms that seemed deeply entrenched can quickly be resolved. What a magnificently utopian idea …
After her 2020 production of Schiller’s The Robbers, Joanna Praml now stages Lessing’s last play at Junges DT and explores connections between his dramatic poem and the lives of the young people in the ensemble. What do you believe in more: God or money? Who do you pray to when you are in danger? How can we stop defining ourselves through difference and damn well celebrate social diversity at long last? And is enlightened reason really the answer to all problems?
With the kind support of the K. S. Fischer Foundation
A blended family at the time of the religious crusades in the melting pot that is Jerusalem. Wise Jewish merchant Nathan discovers that his house has been burnt down and his stepdaughter Recha has barely escaped death. During the search for Recha’s saviour – and amid power struggles plotted by various religious groups – Lessing has Nathan tell the parable of the ring as an allegory on tolerance and humanity which demonstrates through metaphor how schisms that seemed deeply entrenched can quickly be resolved. What a magnificently utopian idea …
After her 2020 production of Schiller’s The Robbers, Joanna Praml now stages Lessing’s last play at Junges DT and explores connections between his dramatic poem and the lives of the young people in the ensemble. What do you believe in more: God or money? Who do you pray to when you are in danger? How can we stop defining ourselves through difference and damn well celebrate social diversity at long last? And is enlightened reason really the answer to all problems?
With the kind support of the K. S. Fischer Foundation
Director Joanna Praml
Stage and costumes Inga Timm
Music Hajo Wiesemann
Music assistants Raissa Mehner, Tobias Schütte
Light Marco Scherle
Dramaturgy Maura Meyer, Dorle Trachternach
World Premiere
6 February 2023
Kammerspiele
Duration: 1 hour and 40 minutes, no intermission
6 February 2023
Kammerspiele
Duration: 1 hour and 40 minutes, no intermission
Susann Ali-Saleha
Stella Gröszer
Diane Kimbonen
Dennis Kramp
Kareem Musa
Lilian Musch
Julien Neisius
Mariella Pierza
Álvaro Jose Sanchez Rosero
Levin Tosun
Mathilda Tzitzi
Johnny Zimmermann
Susann Ali-Saleha, Stella Gröszer, Diane Kimbonen, Dennis Kramp, Kareem Musa, Lilian Musch, Julien Neisius, Mariella Pierza, Álvaro Jose Sanchez Rosero, Levin Tosun, Mathilda Tzitzi, Johnny Zimmermann
