Marcus Braun

“It is for one the way of the world, that the good are eclipsed by the bad and thus that virtue gets its most lively tinge in contrast with vice.” Who doesn’t know Schiller’s The Robbers ... Franz and Karl are in a feud like Cain and Abel, are at war with each other over their father’s affection. In Schiller’s “The Robbers” the “…vice… with all of its inner clockwork is revealed. It turns all of Franz’s complicated chills of conscience into powerless abstractions, skeletonises the judging sentiment and jokes away the serious voice of religion.” This, author Marcus Braun pursues decisively in his new adaption of “The Robbers.

KARL VON MOOR I don’t want you to get the wrong impression. We are not murdering for fun, but for a higher justice. And that’s not fun.

Marcus Braun examines The Robbers with trim and straight sequences. Not without irony, he pursues the breaches inherent in such a nonreflective ambition and creates a contemporary interpretation of the question of how far man is willing to overindulge in fear and ambition.