Lukas Rietzschel, Julia Weinreich, Liesbeth Coltof

Mit der Faust in die Welt schlagen
Dresdner Fassung
2 D, 5 H
UA: 13.9.2019 · Sächsisches Staatstheater Dresden · Directed by: Liesbeth Coltof
Philipp and Tobias grow up in the backwoods of Saxony. Their parents are working class. With the building of their house, the start of a new life should begin. But nothing has been happening in the village for a long time: the fireclay factory closed down years ago. A highlight remains: once a year there is a carnival! But there people meet mainly for a brawl in the shadow of the switched off chain carousel. Around the brothers everything falls apart, the home disappears, and then the parents separate as well. Those who stay there get drunk or drown themselves in the artificial lake, where there used to be an open-cast mining area. Just like Uwe, who was an informer for the Stasi and whose wife ran away to the West. It is this image of Uwe, the loser, that remains in the memory of Philipp and Tobias. And when marches in Dresden begin and their home town is supposed to take in refugees, the situation escalates. While one brother withdraws into himself, the other seeks an outlet for his rage. And finds it.
The author and essayist Lukas Rietzschel, who was born in 1994 in Eastern Saxony, has written a chronicle of decay with his debut novel MIT DER FAUST IN DIE WELT SCHLAGEN. Biographies here simply run into nothingness, or else one meets the lack of perspective with brutality, as Tobias does. It is a literary confrontation with the present of a torn Germany. (Announcement Staatsschauspiel Dresden)