“Fryheit” – was written on the flags of the peasants as they marched through the lands in 1525 in so-called “hordes.”
In the 500th anniversary year of the Peasants' War, the Chawwerusch Theater seeks in its new open-air play to explore what this first great German popular uprising still means today. When is revolution justified? What must come together for the call for freedom and rights to be unmistakable? How can a spark flicker out weakly one day and ignite a fire of change on another?
Among other stories, it tells the story of the peasant Jakob, who, betrayed by his feudal lord, joins the Bundschuh movement and becomes radicalized over time.
The audience is drawn into the time of the first uprisings, experiences the founding of the Nußdorf horde, and learns about the last battle of the Palatine Peasants' War in Pfeddersheim.
Fryheit, this idea was irrevocably in the world. Time and again, people would take to the streets for freedom, would build barricades for freedom. They would win, fail, and continue to fight.
Every generation must fight for it anew.
Fryheit, an idea that remains forever young.
Featuring: Danilo Fioriti, Yaroslava Gorobey, Alex Müßig, Stephan Wriecz
Book: Jean-Michel Räber
Direction: Susanne Schmelcher
Stage and Costume Design: Sarah Sauerborn
Composition: Nina Wurman
Assistant Director: Martha Eichhorn
Supported by the Kultursommer Rheinland-Pfalz and the Landeszentrale Politische Bildung Rheinland-Pfalz
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