Fabian oder Der Gang vor die Hunde

In the organizer's words:

by Erich Kästner
Adapted for the stage by Gero Vierhuff

"Where the public sphere darkens and the light fades, friendship allows us to preserve the revolutionary potential of self-thinking in dark times."
Omri Boehm

Berlin on the eve of the seizure of power, the metropolis staggers through the interwar years. To escape the bitter reality of everyday life, people throw themselves into the magic of the night and intoxicate themselves in the colorful light of the urban canyons. Jakob Fabian is caught in the middle of this Moloch, wandering through a life he has long since given up on. Briefly, it seems, Cornelia Battenberg ignites a new hope in him, but the sudden, tragic death of his friend Stephan Labude tears Fabian out of life for good.

Erich Kästner's novel is a warning against political moral decay and at the same time an appeal to humanity. "Today, new, or more precisely, very old powers are already fanatically spreading standardized opinions [...] again," wrote Kästner himself about his novel in 1950. Can society still be saved from taking another step into the abyss?

Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes including an interval