Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei nach Hans Weingartner

In the organizer's words:

The fat years are over
based on the film of the same name by Hans Weingartner
adapted for the stage by Gunnar Dreßler
A Young`n`Rotten production

With
Molham Al Dawood, Janik Holländer, Emily Lück, Neven Nöthig

Directed by
Benjamin Werner

Assistance
Franka Siegmund

Set Design
Benjamin Werner

Lighting Designer
Simon Krämer

photos
Jonas Domrath

production
Alexander Ritter, Oliver Paolo Thomas

"Every heart is a revolutionary cell."

Jan and Peter regularly break into luxury villas. But they don't steal laptops or anything else - all they leave behind is the message: "The fat years are over". Peter's girlfriend Jule is in debt to a manager after an accident. When the three of them decide to break into the manager's house, everything goes wrong and resistance suddenly turns into terrorism.

Hans Weingartner's film discusses resistance and adaptation and poses the question of what is necessary to make our society supposedly fairer. Between great ideals and the excesses of capitalism, all the characters struggle with their desire for justice. What does a person need to be happy? And above all - how much of it? And when is it over? Or is it already over?

"We live in a democracy. I don't have to justify owning things that I've paid for."
"Wrong. We live in a dictatorship of capital. Everything you own, you have stolen."

PRESS RATINGS

"What the production manages to do is create dense atmospheres. Between longer dialogues are images that look like a film. For example, at the beginning, when burglar Jule (Emily Lück) knocks Hardenberg unconscious. The players move as if in slow motion, strobe lighting obscures the exact sequence of events and transmits the panic of the moment to the audience. This is accompanied by atmospheric music until Hardenberg lies bloodied and unconscious on the floor.
What remains after this evening full of fake blood? Above all, the memory of the great enthusiasm of the young actors."
(kritik-gestalten)