Untertan. Eine deutsche Revue

In the organizer's words:

Diederich Hessling is a subject. He steps down and lets himself be stepped on from above. He thinks uniforms are cool and likes being part of a crowd. He is always in the right club. He always worships the most powerful. He despises all people who are as weak as him or even weaker. He does business. He gossips and incites and intrigues. He talks about order and discipline. He adapts his opinions and political statements to his ambitions. He makes a career. He spends a lot of time in pubs. He has stress with the "women". He is unsympathetic. In short: Diederich Hessling is an exemplary German.

Heinrich Mann's famous novel character got pretty far in the old empire with his "German-ness". This social satire from 1918, which is hard-hitting and to the point in literary terms, clearly demonstrates how the German spirit could be formed, which a little later wanted the whole world to recover from its essence and perished in the process. But how far away from this "German stuff" are we really today? What can we think about being German in the 21st century? How much Diederich Hessling is still in us and in the people around us? By the way, what about the German-ness of women? Where and how do we find them, our German abysses, the German tone, the German rhythm? Director Mareike Mikat wants to explore all this and much more with the means of the revue.