Wer nicht weiter weiß, hat recht

Making oneself approachable as a critique of capitalism

Anyone who thinks they know the way forward on their own hasn't understood the crisis. And perhaps they still believe the world is a stage for egocentric self-assertion. Nothing disrupts our coexistence more than the capitalist imperative to present ourselves as something special.

The performers this evening resist the patriarchal gesture of flooding spaces with self-totalization. They seek a place of post-identity and the ability to feel through relational care. But how is that possible when the structures with which we inflict violence upon ourselves are also within us?

The production explores what it might mean to allow oneself to be questioned in a trauma-sensitive way, in order to become a self despite power structures. It presents a critique of one's own narcissism as an embodied critique of capitalism. What needs to happen for the feeling of being lost to be transformed into collective and relational care?

In a cycle of linguistic destruction and reconstruction, musical trance and light arena, the production opens an atmospheric discursive space between abstraction and intimacy, in order to highlight the ideological grammars of disconnection and to search for subversive aesthetics against the traumatic compulsion to repeat. An escape from an overly complex world through the radical acknowledgment of one's own lostness: those who don't know what to do next are right!

"Anyone who wants to leave behind the capitalist pressure to self-optimize and embark on an aesthetically subversive journey will be thrilled."
- Tip -

Thanks to the Theaterhaus Schöneweide. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

GAME
Lisa Heinrici
Emma Rönnebeck

MUSIC
Michelangelo Contini

LIGHTING & COSTUME & STAGE
Thomas Giger

VIDEO
Nicolas Gebbe

WRITING
Marie Jordan

DRAMATURGY
Anna Krauß

SCENES (TEXT)
Emma Rönnebeck
Malte Schlösser

REGBI ASSISTANCE & DRAMATURGICAL ASSISTANCE
Yevgenia Conradi

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
Eva-Karen Tittmann
Aurora Kellermann

CONCEPT & DIRECTION & TEXT
Malte Schlösser