photo Thomas Aurin
April 23rd, 2010 – 9.30 Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
EIN CHOR IRRT SICH GEWALTIG / THE CHOIR ERRS ENORMOUSLY
adapted from “Un elephant ca trompe enormement” by Yves Robert
“We’re already good enough!” (Dietmar Dath). And what would that mean for a dominant criticism of capitalism? Will it finally fall silent? Because it keeps limiting itself to saying, that we just have to become better people? “First comes a full stomach, then comes ethics!” So be done with it! All this reckless talk about the end of capitalism! How about the end of ethics! Okay, we could keep talking about excessive executive’s payments! But what if we were already good enough? In that case the critique of capitalism would stand before us and it wouldn’t have much more to say that we could all simply agree to. We’re already good enough! You, Lucien! I! We all are good enough, that’s not the problem right now, that some people are not as good as others. . . . Marx didn’t declare capitalism as repression, as a pre-arranged theft. It’s not the purpose of capitalism to exploit the worker. Or that this purpose is hushed up, that’s not the problem. His own unfeigned surprise about how one becomes a slave owner. Now that’s a topic! And not good and bad. The way the basic principles of capitalism are constituted inevitably leads to misery.
René Pollesch
text and director – René Pollesch
stage and costumes design – Bert Neumann
light design – Frank Novak
dramaturgy – Aenne Quinones
chorus leader – Christine Groß
performed by: Jean Chaize, Brigitte Cuvelier, Christine Groß i Sophie Rois
chorus – Claudia A. Daiber, Jana Hampel, Lisa Hrdina, Anna Kubelik, Marie Löcker, Silvana Schneider, Nele Stuhler i Lisa Wenzel
premiere – April 2nd, 2009
