an adaptation by Egill Heiðar Anton Pálsson und Friederike Heller, based on the translation by Swetlana Geier

Premiere: December 15th, 2010

Alone in a basement flat on the outskirts of town, a former civil servant muses about his life. Bitter, spiteful and depressed, he describes his failure in business, in friendship, in love and questions t...

an adaptation by Egill Heiðar Anton Pálsson und Friederike Heller, based on the translation by Swetlana Geier

Premiere: December 15th, 2010

Alone in a basement flat on the outskirts of town, a former civil servant muses about his life. Bitter, spiteful and depressed, he describes his failure in business, in friendship, in love and questions the validity of a society that cares nothing for the uniqueness of the individual, but allows itself to be guided by the power of the masses. Dostoevsky casts a cool eye on the European ideas of liberalism and materialism and the widespread belief in the feasibility of a better world, a perfect society and an end to all suffering. The author deals with the existential questions of modernity via the role of man in a degenerate world, one that God has abandoned. His close observations lead him to conclude that rational intelligence applies to only a small portion of a human being and that irrationality determines the rest.