Der Trafikant

In the organizer's words:

after Robert Seethaler / stage adaptation by Marcel Kohler

Young Franz Huchel has to leave his home village on Lake Attersee to work in Vienna as an apprentice in a tobacconist's - a small tobacco and newspaper store. It is late summer in 1937 and the new impressions overwhelm the 17-year-old: The big city, which is loud and smells (or is that the rotten times?), the new job in the tobacconist's (a temple of indulgence?), the growing friendship with regular customer Sigmund Freud (THE Sigmund Freud?!), first love (that overwhelming, immortal, overpowering, unfulfilled love - or is that libido, Mr. Freud?) and his dreams (which visit Franz, like uninvited guests). The upheavals of growing up collide with the political upheavals of the world. Franz wonders: "Have I gone mad? Or has the world gone mad?"

Following the great success of his production of "The Tale of the Little Mermaid", director Marcel Kohler is working at the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg for the second time - this time in the evening program. His stage version of the bestselling novel supplements the text with documentary material, an exchange of letters between Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein and song lyrics by the band Wanda.