Rückkehr nach Reims / Returning to Reims

Thomas Ostermeier has staged the most fiercely debated novel of the past theatre-season – and has gone beyond it. Together with Didier Eribon, he returns to the working class quarters of Reims, to the volubly denied roots and the established origins of the current nationalist swing to the right. In memory of her father Willi, a co-founder of the German Green Party, Nina Hoss expands on the consequences of Eribon’s book for today’s Left. The show’s artful frame, constructed from elements of reality and re-enactment, documentary project and work of art, gives a utopian twist to Eribon’s pessimistic résumé. How can we responsibly take a stand in a world that is in a state of dissolution? How can we become capable of action in the face of rampant populism? Ostermeier not only raises these questions, he also gives answers.

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