Leo Meier

Three strangers in a room. They want to listen to the silence. A refuge of peace and relaxation from which you can hear the birds in the branches in the distance. Only the beating of their own hearts sets the pace. It's all a blessing - if only the three of them could shut up for five minutes. Instead, they constantly debate with each other, dragging the noisy clamour of everyday life with them to this place of peace and contemplation. Arguing instead of keeping quiet - and hell, as we all know, is the others. If at first there was such a nice consensus, now the different ideas of life clash. Better to get out of here and back to the noise and smog. Unfortunately, the door is locked and there is no sign of the key. Will the three of them find a consensus here in this dreary place, or will it be their final resting place?

Leo Meier, who won the Audience Award and the SWR2 Radio Play Prize at the Heidelberg Stückemarkt 2022 for his debut play zwei herren von real madrid, achieves a minor miracle. With apparent lightness and liberating humour, Meier creates a self-critical, absurdist drama for our times. Is there a real life in the 21st century? And if so, what does it look like? Where is the meaning of life in the face of devastating climate catastrophes and the brutalisation of society? Perhaps it is poetry that will save us - or perhaps not. The play opens up wounds, sprinkles salt on them and carefully and gently applies healing balm.