Der Untergang der Titanic. Eine Komödie

In the organizer's words:

On April 14, 1912 at 11:40 p.m., an iceberg cuts through the hull of the RMS Titanic.
The "unsinkable" Titanic sinks within a few hours in the freezing cold. 1522 people drown or freeze to death in the North Atlantic because the luxury liner was not equipped with a sufficient number of lifeboats.

Decades later, in the 1970s, Hans Magnus Enzensberger made the catastrophe the subject of his cycle of poems ' The Sinking of the Titanic'. In it, he creates a sharp-sighted social panorama with powerful language.
His findings: even in disaster, the world is divided into top and bottom. And: even a catastrophe of this dimension cannot shake the unconditional belief in progress.
In his "comedy", Enzensberger sheds light on how we deal with catastrophes and threats right up to the present day: "the astonishing ability of human society to maneuver and its inability to see anything other than the projections of the present." (Nicolas Born)