Andres Veiel

The protagonist of the play is Sven Koratsch: he arrives in jail with no experience of being locked up.

Like all newcomers, Sven Koratsch is scanned by specific trading cartels regarding his exploitability. Since he is addicted to heroin, he quickly gets himself into a difficult dependency. For as long as he doesn’t yet know the rules, he inevitably is exploited, since he would do anything to get his poison. Only when it seems like he will lose his girlfriend to the boss of a cartel, does he start using the same rules against the other prisoners. A merciless battle begins: the frontline divides all; even a guard is caught up in it. Koratsch suddenly believes himself to be the boss – he copies his own repression and so becomes his own victim…

In Hier drin kannst du alles haben, the topic and the formal execution are in harmony. It feels effortless and casual, but that’s why it’s so precise. While the plot is coarse and the characters laconic and terse, the essential parts of the story happen in quiet moments, through subtle signs. Andres Veiel manages to move within the narrow, often preshaped social patterns of the topic and still escape all clichés. This is what gives the text its power, its urgency and its authentic character.