Ewald Palmetshofer

David and Judith are superheroes. Ever since their childhood. Spiderman and Catwoman. An old game that still needs to be kept up, one which is filled with a political overflow which is ideologically empty, based only on itself. They are deeply engaged in their game, and placing firebombs in local department stores. They fight against their parents and against their own generation of beautiful and successful people. Paul and Judith try to be a couple. Their parents try to relax. They all make some attempts at going to therapy. Some of them even try life coaching. But everybody is a perpetrator here. And no one has a real political foundation. Only the bombs speak a clear language.

After the proclaimed death of the ideological concept, political desire is empty and impossible. The sibling couple David and Judith operate along this impossibility. Constantly threatened by the danger of perishing, imploding - in an environment, a foam cell which assimilates every desire – there remains only the desire to turn into a bomb, the desire of total annihilation. But it will not be something political that initiates this transformation, this transubstantiation, but pure, apolitical, bourgeois love. Of course. As a young adult, you are enlightened enough to know that the struggle against your own parents and their political failure is no longer a good thing. The other battle is different, quite different—the battle against one's own generation. (Ewald Palmetshofer)

In January 2007, Ewald Palmetshofer was invited to New York for the "hotINK International Play Reading Festival" (presented by Tisch School of the Arts at NYU) with the English translation of heroes (English superheroes by Neil Fleming). The scenic reading was arranged by Dieter Boyer.