David Lindemann

This Stammheim Special in the trilogy The mystical reason of civilization, which examines the archetypes of the genre "Western" as well as the genesis of the civil legal state, shows us a Pat Garrett who is now working as a civil servant. After his self betrayal, Garrett, whose portrait still adorns the sheriff's star in Lincoln County, has to get rid of his former friend, the young revolver hero Billy the Kid, to assure himself of the legality of his existence. How close are Milosevic and Geronimo to each other, how close are the massacre of Sand Creek in 1864 and Abu Ghraib, Pat Garrett and Otto Schily? According to this Stammheim Special, the law is always based on an act of violence, a decision which must not be slipped into, but must be made. To speak of the right of the stronger is not enough. Right is not conceivable without violence, and the unstable basis of law is mystical ... Lindemann examines the mythos of the RAF and, with the help of elements of the "Western," the interplay of law and violence: in a fictional cell, the author gathers four women, guarded by a male "legal body". Playfully, they digest questions about rebellion, resistance and rules. (Announcement theater rampe stuttgart)

"The proximity of the author and director to René Pollesch is unmistakable. Like the latter, he works in an adjoining room of the Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin. What we had predicted, that Pollesch would find his imitators, has already proved true in Lindemann. Fortunately, the fear that the results of such imitation would be terrible has proven to be false ... When Sheriff Pat Garrett looks out the window, he sees a flourishing future. Billy the Kid is shot in the end. is a difficult but successful play. "(Culture)