Baumeister Solness

In the organizer's words:

Battle of the generations

"...furious and oppressive, a nightmare of guilt and forced atonement, excellently acted and interestingly constructed right to the end." (Münchner Abendzeitung)

Halvard Solness is an unscrupulous building contractor. In business as in life, this man of power knows no limits, his maxim: higher, faster, further. Now the architect is at his zenith, and the next generation appears to him more and more as a threat.

One day, Hilde Wangel suddenly appears on his doorstep and with her the ghosts of his biography. A dizzying battle to interpret the past begins. What happened ten years ago when Solness kissed ten-year-old Hilde and promised her "a kingdom"? Why are there two empty children's rooms in the childless couple's house? What is the bloody basis of Solness' success? Master Builder Solness is the dramatic portrait of a man who is driven to his death by fear of the changes in his present.

Director Felicitas Brucker was first invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen in 2023 with her triumphant theatrical thriller "Nora". Now she is once again turning her attention to Henrik Ibsen, the abysmal analyst of the nightmare of the bourgeois family. Hilde Wangel is a dazzling female character at the center of the play, who faces up to the struggle against her environment with all radicalism.

"Hilde Wangel confronts an inner demon that nevertheless attracts her. I see her urge to encounter Solness again as an act of inner cleansing. As a liberation from a demon that has accompanied her for so long and has taken on an indescribable dimension. She wants to see him shrink to his true size."

- Annika Neugart, actress