Furcht und Elend des Dritten Reiches

In the organizer's words:

by Bertolt Brecht

From 15 years

Duration: 1h 50, no intermission

A married couple who fear being denounced by their son. A Jewish woman who will leave her husband and go into exile because society ostracizes him. A couple who overhear the arrest of their neighbor whom they have betrayed. Or a family whose dead son is brought in a sealed zinc coffin so that it is no longer recognizable how he died. In his play Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, which premiered in 1938, Bertolt Brecht tells the story of how a dictatorial system takes hold of everyday life, the social fabric and family structures of German society.
For director Timofey Kuljabin, this system encompasses language itself. His production moves from loud propaganda to silence and focuses on the uncanny presence of Brecht's material.
Until the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, Timofey Kulyabin was artistic director of the Red Torch Theater in Novosibirsk and staged productions at the Moscow Theater of Nations and the Bolshoi Theater, among others. Since then, he has worked at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the National Theatre Sofia, the Opéra National de Lyon and the Dailes Theater in Riga(In the Loneliness of the Cotton Fields with John Malkovich), among others. In summer 2024, Kuljabin's production of Iphigenia in Aulis premiered at the Athens and Epidauros Festival.